Authors
Luis U Aguilera, William S Raymond, Rhiannon M Sears, Nathan L Nowling, Brian Munsky, Ning Zhao
Published in
Bioinformatics advances. Volume 6. Issue 1. Pages vbag095. Epub Mar 30, 2026.
Abstract
Advances in live-cell fluorescence microscopy have enabled us to visualize single molecules (such as mRNAs and nascent proteins) in real time with high spatiotemporal resolution. However, these experiments generate large datasets that require complex computational processing pipelines to derive meaningful and quantitative information, which is a technical barrier for many researchers.
Here, we introduce MicroLive, an open-source Python-based application for quantifying live-cell microscopy images. MicroLive provides an interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) to perform key tasks, including cell segmentation, photobleaching correction, single-particle detection/tracking, spot intensity quantification, inter-channel colocalization, and time-series correlation analysis. As a ground-truth testing dataset, we used synthetic live-cell imaging data generated with the rSNAPed toolkit, demonstrating accurate extraction of biologically relevant parameters. Microscopy images of U-2 OS cells expressing a gene construct smHA-KDM5B-BoxB-MS2 were used to demonstrate the use of this software.
MicroLive is distributed under a GPLv3 license and available on GitHub https://github.com/ningzhaoAnschutz/microlive. It can be installed via pip: pip install microlive.
PMID:
41994225
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 17 Apr 2026.
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