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toolsandogh

A Python toolbox for iSCAT microscopy data analysis, developed by the Sandoghdar Division of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).

Overview

toolsandogh provides a small, reusable library for loading, processing, analyzing, and storing microscopy videos. It is designed around a canonical 5D data model---T (time), C (channel), Z (slice), Y (row), X (column)---implemented as lazy xarray arrays backed by Dask.

Features

  • Lazy, out-of-core computation: Videos are kept as Dask arrays so you can work with datasets larger than memory.
  • Labeled, metadata-rich arrays: Results are xarray.DataArray objects with TCZYX dimensions and OME metadata.
  • Multiple microscopy formats: Read and write RAW/BIN, TIFF, OME-TIFF, OME-Zarr, ND2, and other formats supported by bioio.
  • Reusable analysis primitives: Rolling statistics, radial variance transform, synthetic data generation, and more.

Installation

This project uses the uv package manager. Clone the repository and run:

uv sync

To install in editable mode for development:

uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

Quick start

import toolsandogh as sand

# Load a video (any bioio-supported format or raw BIN/RAW file).
video = sand.load_video("movie.nd2")

# Apply a rolling average along the time axis.
smoothed = sand.rolling_average(video, window_size=5, dim="T")

# Save the result back to disk.
sand.store_video(smoothed, "smoothed.ome.tiff")

Use help(sand.load_video) or help(sand.store_video) for details on the available arguments.

Repository layout

  • src/toolsandogh/ --- the main Python package.
  • src/toolsandogh/tests/ --- pytest test suite.
  • DESIGN.md --- design conventions and coding standards.

Contributing

Please see DESIGN.md for coding conventions, documentation standards, and architecture decisions. In brief:

  • All public functions must be type-hinted and documented in numpydoc style.
  • Code is linted with ruff and type-checked with pyright.
  • Prefer free functions; keep data in xarray.DataArray/Dataset form.
  • Tests go in src/toolsandogh/tests/.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later.

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