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Here, we present detecting-NEMO (dNEMO), a computational tool optimized for accurate and rapid measurement of fluorescent puncta in fixed-cell and time-lapse images.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The spot detection algorithm uses the \u00e0 trous wavelet transform, a computationally inexpensive method that is robust to imaging noise. By combining automated with manual spot curation in the user interface, fluorescent puncta can be carefully selected and measured against their local background to extract high-quality single-cell data. Integrated into the workflow are segmentation and spot-inspection tools that enable almost real-time interaction with images without time consuming pre-processing steps. Although the software is agnostic to the type of puncta imaged, we demonstrate dNEMO using smFISH to measure transcript numbers in single cells in addition to the transient formation of IKK\/NEMO puncta from time-lapse images of cells exposed to inflammatory stimuli. We conclude that dNEMO is an ideal user interface for rapid and accurate measurement of fluorescent molecular assemblies in biological imaging data.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The data and software are freely available online at https:\/\/github.com\/recleelab.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaa874","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,28]],"date-time":"2020-09-28T15:17:03Z","timestamp":1601306223000},"page":"677-683","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["dNEMO: a tool for quantification of mRNA and punctate structures in time-lapse images of single cells"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Gabriel J","family":"Kowalczyk","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA"}]},{"given":"J Agustin","family":"Cruz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA"}]},{"given":"Yue","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA"},{"name":"Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA"}]},{"given":"Qiuhong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA"}]},{"given":"Natalie","family":"Sauerwald","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA"}]},{"given":"Robin E C","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023051704122985800_btaa874-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"23352","DOI":"10.1364\/OE.17.023352","article-title":"Quantitative study of single molecule location estimation techniques","volume":"17","author":"Abraham","year":"2009","journal-title":"Opt. 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