Cellects, a software to quantify cell expansion and motion

Automated quantification offers unique opportunities to study biological phenomena, increasing reproducibility, replicability, accuracy, and throughput, while reducing observer biases. We present Cellects, a tool to quantify growth and motion in 2D. This software operates with image sequences containing specimens growing and moving on an immobile flat surface. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy to adjust the quantification parameters to cover a wide range of species and conditions, and includes tools to validate the results and correct mistakes if necessary. The software provides the region covered by the specimens at each point of time, as well as many geometrical descriptors that characterize it. We validated Cellects with Physarum polycephalum, which is particularly difficult to detect because of its complex shape and internal heterogeneity. This validation covered five different conditions with different background and lighting, and found Cellects to be highly accurate in all..., Github link: https://github.com/Aurele-B/Cellects, , # Data from: Cellects, a software to quantify cell expansion and motion

This README contains the information to install the Cellects software, to use it,
and to reproduce the results of the paper describing it.

Since reproducing the results only requires the python project named CellectsPaper, a prior installation of Cellects is not mandatory.

## Content

This repository contains:
1 Two files corresponding to three different Cellects installation methods:

* Cellects_installer.exe
* Cellects.zip

2 Two zip files allowing to reproduce the results of the paper describing Cellects:

* Cellects_data.zip
* CellectsPaper.zip

The next section explain how to install and use Cellects,
and the last section explain how to reproduce the results of the paper.

## 1. Install and use Cellects

### 1.1. Installation

Following the README available [here](https://github.com/Aurele-B/Cellects), you can install Cellects by:

* Downloading and running Cellects_installer.exe or Cellects.zip on...