Welcome to Locan
Locan is a python-based library with code for analyzing fluorescence super-resolution microscopy data.
Getting Started
To install the package please read the instructions or:
pip install locan
or:
conda install -c conda-forge locan
For details on usage and development please read the documentation.
Tutorials are provided as Jupyter notebooks.
You can use the package in a docker container as described in docker/README.md.
Contributing
Development takes place on the Locan GitHub page.
Please use GitHub issues to report bugs and feature requests. Use GitHub discussions for Q&A.
Please read documentation on development for details on how to help develop this project further.
Developers
See the list of contributors who participated in this project.
License
This project is licensed under the BSD-3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.
Citing
If you want to acknowledge locan please cite the following publication:
Sören Doose, LOCAN: a python library for analyzing single-molecule localization microscopy data, Bioinformatics 38(9), 2670–2672, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac160
Or cite this repository using the DOI provided by zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5722472
Note this DOI will resolve to all versions of locan. To cite a specific version please find the DOI of that version on the zenodo page.
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