Barabas Federico M, Masullo Luciano A, Stefani Fernando D
Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencas (CIBION), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2390, C1425FQD Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2016 Dec;87(12):126103. doi: 10.1063/1.4972392.
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.
直到最近,科学仪器的计算机控制和同步还只能通过像美国国家仪器公司的LabVIEW这样的闭源昂贵框架来实现。如今,在开源软件开发群体不断壮大的背景下,有了高效的免费替代方案。在此,我们报告Tormenta,一款用于控制基于相机的光学显微镜的模块化开源软件。Tormenta基于Python构建,可在多个操作系统上运行,并且具备一些基于单分子定位的荧光纳米显微镜的关键特性。