Code & Data

Scope2Screen

Scope2Screen is a scalable software system for focus+context exploration and annotation of whole-slide, high-plex, tissue images.

External References

Scope2Screen: focus+context techniques for pathology tumor assessment in multivariate image data. Jessup J, Krueger R, Warchol S, Hoffer J, Muhlich J, Ritch CC, Gaglia G, Coy S, Chen Y, Lin J, Santagata S, Sorger PK, Pfister H. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2022 Jan;28(1):259-269. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114786. PMID: 34606456. PMCID: PMC8805697.

Minerva

Minerva is a suite of software tools for tissue atlases and digital pathology that enables interactive viewing and fast sharing of large image data. Development of Minerva is led by Jeremy Muhlich and John Hoffer.

What is Minerva?

External References

Minerva: a light-weight, narrative image browser for multiplexed tissue images.mHoffer J, Rashid R, Muhlich JL, Chen Y-A, Russell DPW, Ruokonen J, Krueger R, Pfister H, Santagata S, Sorger PK. J Open Source Softw. 2020 Oct 15;5(54):2579. doi: 10.21105/joss.02579. PMID: 33768192. PMCID: PMC7989801.

Narrative online guides for the interpretation of digital-pathology images and tissue-atlas data. Rashid R, Chen YA, Hoffer J, Muhlich JL, Lin JR, Krueger R, Pfister H, Mitchell R, Santagata S, Sorger PK. Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 Nov 8. doi: 10.1038/s41551-021-00789-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34750536. PMCID: PMC9079188.

MCMICRO

MCMICRO is the end-to-end processing pipeline for multiplexed whole tissue imaging and tissue microarrays. It comprises stitching and registration, segmentation, and single-cell feature extraction. ​​​​​​Development of mcmicro is led by Artem Sokolov and Denis Schapiro.

What is MCMICRO?

External References

MCMICRO: a scalable, modular image-processing pipeline for multiplexed tissue imaging. Schapiro D, Sokolov A, Yapp C, Chen YA, Muhlich JL, Hess J, Creason AL, Nirmal AJ, Baker GJ, Nariya MK, Lin JR, Maliga Z, Jacobson CA, Hodgman MW, Ruokonen J, Farhi SL, Abbondanza D, McKinley ET, Persson D, Betts C, Sivagnanam S, Regev A, Goecks J, Coffey RJ, Coussens LM, Santagata S, Sorger PK. Nat Methods. 2022 Mar;19(3):311-315. doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01308-y. PMID: 34824477. PMCID: PMC8916956.

UnMicst

UnMicst uses the popular UNet architecture to semantically segment an image of nuclei stained with DAPI and/or lamin. UnMicst stands for UNet Model for Identifying Cells and Segmenting Tissue. Version 1 is an early model trained on a small number of annotations. Version 2 has been trained on lung, fibroblast, tonsil, glioblastoma, small intestine, and colon tissue. Development of UnMicst is led by Clarence Yapp.

External References

UnMICST: Deep learning with real augmentation for robust segmentation of highly multiplexed images of human tissues. Yapp C, Novikov E, Jang WD, Vallius T, Chen YA, Cicconet M, Maliga Z, Jacobson CA, Wei D, Santagata S, Pfister H, Sorger PK. Commun Biol. 2022 Nov 18;5(1):1263. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04076-3. PMID: 36400937. PMCID: PMC9674686.

Ashlar

ASHLAR (Alignment by Simultaneous Harmonization of Layer/Adjacency Registration) is an open source Python package that stiches together successive microscopy image tiles to generate a single, seamless image. ASHLAR also registers images from different fluorescent channels at a high level of accuracy.

 

External References

Stitching and registering highly multiplexed whole slide images of tissues and tumors using ASHLAR. Muhlich JL, Chen YA, Yapp C, Russell D, Santagata S, Sorger PK. Bioinformatics. 2022 Aug 16;38(19):4613–21. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac544. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35972352. PMCID: PMC9525007.

Dye Drop

Reliable high-throughput imaging of cells grown in multi-plate wells is complicated by loss of cells during staining and wash steps. The dye drop method uses a set of incrementally more dense solutions to prevent cell loss. Dye Drop software consists of Python tools for determining the viability and cell cycle states of cells before and after drug treatment.

External References

Multiplexed and reproducible high content screening of live and fixed cells using Dye Drop. Mills CE, Subramanian K, Hafner M, Niepel M, Gerosa L, Chung M, Victor C, Gaudio B, Yapp C, Nirmal AJ, Clark N, Sorger PK. Nat Commun. 2022 Nov 14;13(1):6918. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34536-7. PMID: 36376301; PMCID: PMC9663587.

DRIAD: Drug Repurposing in Alzheimer’s Disease

The DRIAD tool evaluates gene sets for their ability to predict the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It utilizes expression data from post-mortem samples of AD patients collected by the AMP-AD consortium.

Web application

External References

Machine learning identifies candidates for drug repurposing in Alzheimer’s disease. Rodriguez S, Hug C, Todorov P, Moret N, Boswell SA, Evans K, Zhou G, Johnson NT, Hyman BT, Sorger PK, Albers MW, Sokolov A. Nat Commun. 2021 Feb 15;12(1):1033. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21330-0. PMID: 33589615. PMCID: PMC7884393.

Adeft

Adeft (Acromine based Disambiguation of Entities From Text context) is a utility for building models to disambiguate acronyms and other abbreviations of biological terms in the scientific literature. It makes use of an implementation of the Acromine algorithm developed by the NaCTeM at the University of Manchester to identify possible longform expansions for shortforms in a text corpus. It allows users to build disambiguation models to disambiguate shortforms based on their text context. A growing number of pretrained disambiguation models are publicly available to download through adeft.

External References

Adeft: Acromine-based Disambiguation of Entities from Text with applications to the biomedical literature. Steppi A, Gyori BM, Bachman JA. Journal of Open Source Software. 2020. 5(45): 1708. doi: 10.21105/joss.01708. PMID: 32337477. PMCID: PMC7182313.

ProteinNet

ProteinNet is a standardized data set for machine learning of protein structure. It provides protein sequences, structures (secondary and tertiary), multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), position-specific scoring matrices (PSSMs), and standardized training / validation / test splits. ProteinNet builds on the biennial CASP assessments, which carry out blind predictions of recently solved but publicly unavailable protein structures, to provide test sets that push the frontiers of computational methodology. It is organized as a series of data sets, spanning CASP 7 through 12 (covering a ten-year period), to provide a range of data set sizes that enable assessment of new methods in relatively data poor and data rich regimes.

External References

ProteinNet: a standardized data set for machine learning of protein structure. AlQuraishi M. BMC Bioinformatics. 2019. 20(1):311. doi: 10.1186/s12859-019-2932-0. PMID: 31185886. PMCID: PMC6560865.

GR Calculator

The Growth Rate inhibition (GR) Calculator is an open source set of Python, R and on-line tools for quantifying the responses of cancer cells to drugs in a manner that corrects for the confounding effects of variable cell proliferation rates. Response metrics computed from GR data include GR50 and GRmax and are direct analogues of familiar IC50 and Emax response measures.

External References

Growth rate inhibition metrics correct for confounders in measuring sensitivity to cancer drugs. Hafner M, Niepel M, Chung M, Sorger PK. Nat Methods. 2016. 13(6):521-7. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3853.PMID: 27135972.

Alternative drug sensitivity metrics improve preclinical cancer pharmacogenomics. Hafner M, Niepel M, Sorger PK. Nat Biotechnol. 2017. 35(6):500-502. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3882. PMID: 28591115.

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