OpenComet: An automated tool for comet assay image analysis

Redox Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 457-465

  Gyori, Benjamin M ^a,c   Venkatachalam, Gireedhar ^a,b   Thiagarajan, P S ^a,c   Hsu, David ^a,c   Clement, Marie Veronique ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; Image processing; ImageJ plug in; Intensity profile analysis; Single cell gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; IN VIVO STUDY; OPENCOMET; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; DRUG EFFECTS; PROCEDURES; RAT;

DNA; FREE RADICAL; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CELL LINE; COMET ASSAY; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; DNA DAMAGE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84894859960     PISSN: 22132317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2013.12.020     Document Type: Article

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