/plosONE_directionalityTime

publically available data for "Describing Directional Cell Migration with a Characteristic Directionality Time," published in PLOS ONE in 2015

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plosONE_directionalityTime

All public data for PLoS ONE paper "Describing Directional Cell Migration with a Characteristic Directionality Time" by Alex Loosley, Xian O'Brien, Jonathan Reichner, and Jay Tang, is contained in this repository.

cellTrajSim.m:

This Trajectory Simulator simulates a 2D persistent biased random walk (PBRW) using a von Mises distribution to bias the angular direction towards the polar angle $\theta=0$. Place file in MATLAB path and run help cellTrajSim in MATLAB for implementation details.

dataForDirTimeManuscript.zip:

This is a data archive containing the 2D trajectories of PMNs on soft polyacrylamide gels. These data were used in the Chemotaxis example described in the manuscript.