ColonyArea: An ImageJ plugin to automatically quantify colony formation in clonogenic assays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Guzmán, Camilo ^a   Bagga, Manish ^a,c   Kaur, Amanpreet ^a,b   Westermarck, Jukka ^a,b   Abankwa, Daniel ^a  

^a TURKU CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; COLONY FORMATION; COLONYAREA ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; HUMANS; STAUROSPORINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84898621979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092444     Document Type: Article

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