DynaCyte 1.0 is a graphical interface program designed to calculate the 2-D stresses exerted by a cell in its movement, crawling over a surface. You have to provide an image, a map of deformations on a plane parallel to the surface and the substrate parameters, and Dynacyte 1.0 will give you the shear stresses. To learn more, download the documentation.

DynaCyte 1.0 makes use of the improved Fourier traction cytometry algorithms described by del Álamo et al. (2007) in PNAS 104 no. 33, 13343-13348. Manuel Gómez has developed the user interface using Visual Basic.

To use DynaCyte 1.0, first you have to instal the Matlab compiler (it is not necessary to have installed Matlab), then unzip the DynaCyte.zip file, and execute DynaCyte.exe.

If you have any question or suggestion regarding DynaCyte 1.0, or you would like to receive notifications and updates about future versions of DynaCyte, please send an email to Manuel Gómez at manu@ucsd.edu.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009