Published software
To control hardware and analize images, we have developped a series of software packages. While the instrumentation software is currently not openly released, many of the stable analysis tools are. The programs listed below are all open and in case of difficulty contact us. The instrumentation software is simply not openly avaliable, as it is very precisely optimized for the used hardware, and is hence largely useless unless exaclty the same hardware is connected. If there is interest in our control software feel free to contact us, however we will not be ably to provide support for these programs.
The MBR GUI, is a graphical user-interface to help calculating the Mean Back Relaxation (MBR), as desribed in recent publications. It allows to import trajecotries either as text files, or directly from common tracking programs such as TrackMate. You can directly plot the MBR, compare it with the MSD and fit different functions. The software can be downloaded here, and the functions are discussed in the ReadMe of the Repository.
Muenker, T. M.; Knotz, G.; Krüger, M.; Betz, T. Accessing activity and viscoelastic properties of artificial and living systems from passive measurement. Nature Materials 23,1283-1291, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01957-2
Bead Buddy
Bead Buddy is a Phython based graphical user interface to segment spherical objects from 3D images, and apply the solution of the eleasticity problem in a spherical harmonics developped based function. If the mechanical properties of the object are known, the surface stresses actin on the bead are calculated from an analytical solution. This allows to provide the surfaces stresses in a length scale dependent way. Bead Buddy alsu uses the GPU and allows calculating the resulting stresses up to Spherical harmonics degree 10.
The software can be downloaded here, and is described and discussed in:
The software can be downloaded here, and is described and discussed in:
Jurado A, Isensee J, Hofemeier A, Krüger LJ, Wittkowski R, Golestanian R, Bittihn P, Betz T (2025) 3D dynamic multiscale force and shape analysis of in-vivo elastic stress sensors.
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