Finding the Rhythm of Life with CHUKNORRIS

Pollen tubes—the male parts of flowering plants—grow in rhythmic pulses, both physically and biochemically. A group led by José Feijó of the Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics has developed an open-source software package, CHUKNORRIS (Computational Heuristics for Understanding Kymographs and aNalysis of Oscillations Relying on Regression and Improved Statistics), to visualize and quantify these microscopic "beats" of life.

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The research paper, “Oscillatory signatures underlie growth regimes in Arabidopsis pollen tubes: computational methods to estimate tip location, periodicity, and synchronization in growing cells,” Daniel Damineli, Maria Portes and José Feijó was published in the Journal of Experimental Botany on March 28, 2017.

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (MCB 1616437/2016). The content of this article does not necessarily reflect the views of the organization.