Data for: Optimal inference of molecular interaction dynamics in FRET microscopy

Intensity-based time-lapse fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy has been a major tool for investigating cellular processes, converting otherwise unobservable molecular interactions into fluorescence time series. However, inferring the molecular interaction dynamics from the observables remains a challenging inverse problem, particularly when measurement noise and photobleaching are nonnegligible—a common situation in single-cell analysis. The conventional approach is to process the time-series data algebraically, but such methods inevitably accumulate the measurement noise and reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), limiting the scope of FRET microscopy. Here, we introduce an alternative probabilistic approach, B-FRET, generally applicable to standard 3-cube FRET-imaging data. Based on filtering theory, B-FRET implements a statistically optimal way to infer molecular interactions and thus drastically improves the SNR. We validate B-FRET using simulated data and then ..., Synthetic data were generated using MATLAB based on the photophysical model described in the article. Experimental data were taken under fluorescence microscopes. See the article for details.  , MATLAB is required to open the data files.Â