CellMAP: an open-source software tool to batch-process cell topography and stiffness maps collected with an atomic force microscope

CellMAP: an open-source software tool to batch-process cell topography and stiffness maps collected with an atomic force microscope

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Abstract Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is the gold-standard technique to simultaneously map the morphology and viscoelastic properties of living cells.Although existing software tools, both open-source and from AFM manufacturers, can analyze cells individually, there is a growing need for Puzzle fast and accessible codes to compile data from multiple cells into a single dataset.To address this, we present CellMAP, a user-friendly software tool Wooden Kit that streamlines the batch-processing of AFM-derived topography and stiffness maps of living cells.

Our analysis pipeline includes but is not limited to: flattening of the underlying substrate surface, filtering of outlier values, measurement of the cell surface and volume, and measurement of height and stiffness distributions.CellMAP can also generate a composite cell that reflects the height and stiffness properties of an entire cell population.