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  • Title: FlyCounter: a simple software for counting large populations of small clumped objects in the laboratory.
    Author: Yati A, Dey S.
    Journal: Biotechniques; 2011 Nov; 51(5):347-8. PubMed ID: 22054548.
    Abstract:
    While several software programs exist to count bacterial colonies on a Petri plate, no suitable solution is available for quick and reliable enumeration of small, live insects. We have written a program called FlyCounter that can obtain counts from images, even if insects are highly clumped in space. We also describe a simple and inexpensive system for anesthetizing and capturing high-quality images of the small insects. Taken together, our process is fast, fully automatic, and has a low percentage of error (~1%-4% on average). Although we have tested our software on fruit flies, it should be simple to extend to other organisms of similar size.
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