Gitter: A robust and accurate method for quantification of colony sizes from plate images

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 547-552

  Wagih, Omar ^a,b   Parts, Leopold ^b  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Array; Genetics; Image analysis; R; Synthetic genetic

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GITTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; ROTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

GENETICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; R; SYNTHETIC GENETIC ARRAY;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84897000871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.009431     Document Type: Article

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