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ArticlePLoS computational biology2025

OmniSegger: A time-lapse image analysis pipeline for bacterial cells.

Teresa W Lo, Kevin J Cutler, H James Choi, Paul A Wiggins

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Teresa W LoDepartment of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8928-7228
Kevin J CutlerDepartment of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
H James ChoiDepartment of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Paul A WigginsDepartment of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8316-4339

Funding

TRAINING IN MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICST32GM008268 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KOLLMAN, JUSTIN M, ZHENG, NING · 1988 to 2023
$8.6M
Replication resolved in the living cell: Replisome dynamics, stability and structure.R01GM128191 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MERRIKH, HOURA, WIGGINS, PAUL A · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM128191NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Time-lapse microscopy is a powerful tool to study the biology of bacterial cells. The development of pipelines that facilitate the automated analysis of these datasets is a long-standing goal of the field. In this paper, we describe the OmniSegger pipeline developed as an open-source, modular, and holistic suite of algorithms whose input is raw microscopy images and whose output is a wide range of quantitative cellular analyses, including dynamical cell cytometry data and cellular visualizations. The updated version described in this paper introduces two principal refinements: (i) robustness to cell morphologies and (ii) support for a range of common imaging modalities. To demonstrate robustness to cell morphology, we present an analysis of the proliferation dynamics of Escherchia coli treated with a drug that induces filamentation. To demonstrate extended support for new image modalities, we analyze cells imaged by five distinct modalities: phase-contrast, two brightfield modalities, and cytoplasmic and membrane fluorescence. Together, this pipeline should greatly increase the scope of tractable analyses for bacterial microscopists.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedTime-Lapse ImagingAlgorithmsComputational BiologyEscherichia coliMicroscopySoftware

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PMID40435362
PMCPMC12140430

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