Package: pecowaco
PeCoWaCoThis python package is to be used in conjugation with the Fiji plugin WizardofOz(WoZ) to analyze periodic contractions of cortical waves, which travel around blastomeres in an oscillatory fashion.Download Fiji fromFiji, After download open Fiji and to install the Fiji plugin WizardofOz check the update cite MTrack.Click Help ▶ Update....Click the Manage update sites button.Select the MTrack update site in the list.Click Close and then click Apply changes.Restart Fiji.Launch the plugin with Plugins ▶ WizardofOz ▶ Local Deformation & Intensity Tracking.In the plugin the Raw image (shown below) and its segmentation image are the inputs. In the plugin we fit circles for computing the local curvature
information using the start, center and end
point of a 10 μm strip on the cell surface to fit
a circle. The strip is then moved by 1 pixel
along the segmented cell and a new circle is
fitted. This process is repeated till all the
points of the cell are covered. The radius of
curvature of the 10 μm strip boundaries are
averaged. Kymograph of local curvature
values around the perimeter over time is
produced by plotting the perimeter of the strip
over time.
Curvature kymographs obtained from local
curvature tracking are then exported into this python package (pecowaco) for amplitude, frequency and velocity of wave analysis.InstallationThis package can be installed with:pip install --user PeCoWaCoIf you are building this from the source, clone the repository and install viagitclonehttps://github.com/MechaBlasto/PeCoWaCo/cdPeCoWaCo

pipinstall--user-e.# or, to install in editable mode AND grab all of the developer tools# (this is required if you want to contribute code back to NapaTrackMater)pipinstall--user-rrequirements.txtPipenv installPipenv allows you to install dependencies in a virtual environment.# install pipenv if you don't already have it installedpipinstall--userpipenv# clone the repository and sync the dependenciesgitclonehttps://github.com/MechaBlasto/PeCoWaCo/cdPeCoWaCo
pipenvsync# make the current package availablepipenvrunpythonsetup.pydevelop# you can run the example notebooks by starting the jupyter notebook inside the virtual envpipenvrunjupyternotebookAccess theexamplefolder and run the cells.UsageThe WizardofOz plugin can be run using a single channel image or a dual channel image. The segmentation image for both is the same. In the single channel mode curvature, distance and intensity of the membrane is computed, in dual channel mode the intensity along the membrane of the second channel is computed as well. We provide two notebooks for analysis of these two modes.ExamplePIVanalysis is used to obtain the x- and y-velocities of individual vectors
that are then used for Fourier
analysis. A Fourier transform of the vector
velocities over time is performed using
Matlab’s fast Fourier transform function. The
resulting Fourier transforms are squared to
obtain individual power spectra. Squared
Fourier transforms in the x and y directions of
all vectors are averaged for individual
embryos resulting in mean power spectra of
individual embryos.Notebook1)  In this notebook, the curvature, distance and intensity kymograph output coming from a single channel of WoZ plugin serves as an input. Users can choose the start and the end points along the x and y axis of kymograph to exclude certain regions from further computation. We calculate the root mean square, space resolved FFT along the time axis and a space averaged FFT plot with interactive bokeh plots. All the information is saved as csv files.Notebook2) In this notebook, the curvature, distance and intensity kymograph output coming from dual channel mode of WoZ plugin serves as an input. We compute the same quantities as in notebook 1 but in addition now with the intnesity kymograph analysis of the second channel included as well.RequirementsPython 3.7 and above.LicenseUnder MIT license. SeeLICENSE.AuthorsÖzge ÖzgüçVarun Kapoorrandomaccessiblekapoor@gmail.com