/FrogSpawn

Image Analysis Tools for Spherical Embyros

Primary LanguageMatlabMIT LicenseMIT

FrogSpawn

A toolbox for quantitative morphometric analysis of early development in spherical embryos, such as Xenopus laevis (African Clawed Frog). The toolbox was originally developed for Matlab 6.5 and higher and combines C-Mex code with Matlab functions and was originally hosted on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/frogspawn).

FrogSpawn tools were used for the following publications:

A. J. Ewald, S. M. Peyrot, J. M. Tyszka, S. E. Fraser, and J. B. Wallingford, “Regional requirements for Dishevelled signaling during Xenopus gastrulation: separable effects on blastopore closure, mesendoderm internalization and archenteron formation,” Development, vol. 131, no. 24, pp. 6195–6209, Dec. 2004 [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.01542

J. M. Tyszka, A. J. Ewald, J. B. Wallingford, and S. E. Fraser, “New tools for visualization and analysis of morphogenesis in spherical embryos,” Dev. Dyn., vol. 234, no. 4, pp. 974–983, Dec. 2005 [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.20561