Quickstart

noctiluca is a python library for downstream analysis of single particle tracking data. Downstream here means that we are not concerned with particle detection from movies or the linking problem, instead our starting point are the linked particle trajectories. Consequently, the core of this library are the classes Trajectory, representing a single trajectory, and TaggedSet, which provides a useful way of organizing multiple (sets of) trajectories. In addition, some utility code is provided to a) directly perform simple analyses and b) facilitate the developement of analysis libraries building on the format introduced here (such as bayesmsd and bild).

So what’s the fastest way to get started?

• Take a look at the tutorials for Trajectory and TaggedSet

• For any details that are skipped in the tutorials, refer to the documentation

• To see more of what noctiluca can do (and some standard usage), work through the rest of the examples