Category Archives: General STORM

issues with non-blinking weak spots

The very bright, round foci clearly do not correspond to objects in the conventional image and are probably all artificats from non-switching foci. These dots start off at moderate single molecule brightness (can’t eliminate them just using higher threshold cutoff … Continue reading

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Troubleshooting new hard-drive install

Windows doesn’t like talking to new disk drives, and repeatedly connecting new drives seems to create a problem.  Especially when the drives are formatted for Mac. Symptom: The newly plugged in drive does not appear. In start menu, search for … Continue reading

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Installing DaoSTORM for windows

Into the rabbit hole! DaoSTORM requires 64 bit C-libraries, which requires a 64 bit compiler, which to build first requires an installation of a c-32 bit compiler.  Also requires Fortran libraries in Lapack which requires the program CMAKE to install … Continue reading

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DaoSTORM for Matlab

  mufit starts writing  bin files immediately (good for memory) First we need a watcher: A good introduction to using WMIC http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=2376 (Windows Management Instrumentation Command) [status result] = dos(‘wmic process where name=”python.exe” list brief’); running = strfind(result,’python.exe’); Running head-to-head comparison of … Continue reading

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First pass at H3K27me3 imaging at the ANT-C locus in embryos

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