brainglobe-stitch

Stitching tiled 3D light-sheet data in napari

A napari plugin for stitching tiled 3D acquisitions from a mesoSPIM light-sheet microscope. The plugin utilises BigStitcher to align the tiles and napari to visualise the stitched data.

Installation

We strongly recommend to use a virtual environment manager (like conda). The installation instructions below will not specify the Qt backend for napari, and you will therefore need to install that separately. Please see the napari installation instructions for further advice on this.

To install latest development version:

pip install git+https://github.com/brainglobe/brainglobe-stitch.git

This plugin requires Fiji to be installed on your system. You can download Fiji here.

The BigStitcher plugin must be installed in Fiji. Please follow the instructions here.

Seeking help or contributing

We are always happy to help users of our tools, and welcome any contributions. If you would like to get in contact with us for any reason, please see the contact page of our website.

Citation

If you find this package useful, please make sure to cite the original BigStitcher publication:

Hörl, D., Rojas Rusak, F., Preusser, F. et al. BigStitcher: reconstructing high-resolution image datasets of cleared and expanded samples. Nat Methods 16, 870–874 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0501-0

License

Distributed under the terms of the BSD-3 license, "brainglobe-stitch" is free and open source software

Acknowledgements

This napari plugin was generated with Cookiecutter using napari's cookiecutter-napari-plugin template and the Neuroinformatics Unit's template.