CONTRACTIONWAVE: Dense optical flow software to quantify cellular contractility

CONTRACTIONWAVE (CW) is a free software developed in Python Programming Language that allows the user to visualize, quantify, and analyze cell contractility parameters in a simple and intuitive format. The software enables the user to acquire membrane kinetics data of cell contractility during contraction-relaxation cycles through image capture and a dense optical flow algorithm. Both method and software were developed using multidisciplinary knowledge, which resulted in a robust data extraction protocol. CONTRACTIONWAVE was originally published in Scalzo et al., Dense optical flow software to quantify cellular contractility, Cell Reports Methods (2021), doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2021.100044. Any use of CW should cite the paper. CW are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, and its source code is available at https://github.com/marceloqla/ContractionWavePy