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Note: Tormenta: An open source Python-powered control software for camera based optical microscopy

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Until recently, PC control and synchronization of scientific instruments was only possible through closed-source expensive frameworks like National Instruments' LabVIEW. Nowadays, efficient cost-free alternatives are available in the context of a continuously growing community of open-source software developers. Here, we report on Tormenta, a modular open-source software for the control of camera-based optical microscopes. Tormenta is built on Python, works on multiple operating systems, and includes some key features for fluorescence nanoscopy based on single molecule localization.

Source: Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI: 10.1063/1.4972392

Authors: Federico M. Barabas, Luciano A. Masullo, Fernando D. Stefani

Institutions: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques

Subfield: Biophysics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica

Awards: Fluoroforos individuales como fuentes y receptores locales acoplados a nano-antenas ópticas, G5832024572