SOAX: A software for quantification of 3D biopolymer networks

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xu, Ting ^a   Vavylonis, Dimitrios ^b   Tsai, Feng Ching ^c,g   Koenderink, Gijsje H ^c   Nie, Wei ^b   Yusuf, Eddy ^b,d,e   Lee, I Ju ^f,h   Wu, Jian Qiu ^f   Huang, Xiaolei ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^d SURE Center   (Indonesia)

^e IPH Schools   (Indonesia)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^h DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BIOPOLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SOFTWARE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTINS; BIOPOLYMERS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84924911749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09081     Document Type: Article

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