An integrated platform for high-throughput nanoscopy

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Data availability

The 3D localizations, calibration files and raw blinking videos for all series in Fig. 2, and Cell no. 1, no. 2,504, no. 5,735, no. 8,041, no. 9,577 and no. 11,160 from the lamin-NPM1 dataset in Fig. 4 (and 3D localizations for the remaining cells), are publicly available through the 4D Nucleome data portal at https://data.4dnucleome.org/publications/7d9fad19-54c4-419e-8d99-8157f5c1904b/. Any additional data from this work can be obtained through the authors upon request.

Code availability

The code for automated acquisition, distributed data storage and analysis is released under the GNU General Public License v.3 as part of the python-microscopy project and is available at github.com/python-microscopy/python-microscopy. The quantized compression software can be installed independently, with instructions for use with third-party software additionally available at github.com/python-microscopy/pymecompress. Code for GPU acceleration of single-molecule fitting is available under an academic use license from github.com/barentine/pyme-warp-drive. The LabVIEW acquisition software used in phase 1 can be obtained from the authors; however, it is not actively maintained. Please contact the authors for alternative licensing arrangements.

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Acknowledgements

We thank A. Wrogg for contributing the timeline in Fig. 1. We thank L. Schroeder and Y. Zhang for helpful discussions and technical assistance. This work was primarily supported by a 4D Nucleome grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (grant no. U01 DA047734 to J.B. and D.B.). J.B. acknowledges support from NIH grant no. P30 DK045735 (to R. Sherwin). A.E.S.B. acknowledges support by an NIH training grant (no. T32 GM008283) and training on the Computational Image Analysis in Cellular and Developmental Biology Course of the Marine Biology Laboratory (which was supported by NIH grant no. R25 GM103792). We are also grateful for funding from NIH awards no. U01CA200147 TCPA-2017-Neugebauer and OPAS (to K.M.N.) and no. 1R01NS128358-1 (to K.M.N. and J.B.). This work is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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  1. These authors contributed equally: Andrew E. S. Barentine, Yu Lin.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Andrew E. S. Barentine, Yu Lin, Edward M. Courvan, Phylicia Kidd, Leonhard Balduf, Timy Phan, Felix Rivera-Molina, Michael R. Grace, Zach Marin, Mark Lessard, Juliana Rios Chen, Siyuan Wang, Karla M. Neugebauer, Joerg Bewersdorf & David Baddeley

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Andrew E. S. Barentine, Yu Lin, Zach Marin & Joerg Bewersdorf

  3. Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Edward M. Courvan & Karla M. Neugebauer

  4. Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Miao Liu & Siyuan Wang

  5. Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

    Leonhard Balduf & Timy Phan

  6. Auckland Bioengineering Institute at University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Zach Marin & David Baddeley

  7. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Joerg Bewersdorf

  8. Nanobiology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA

    Joerg Bewersdorf & David Baddeley

Contributions

Y.L. and J.B. designed the optical hardware of the microscope which Y.L. built. A.E.S.B., Y.L., D.B., Z.M., T.P. and J.R.C. developed acquisition control software. M.R.G., A.E.S.B. and D.B. designed and implemented the computer cluster. D.B. designed the distributed the storage architecture and compression algorithm. D.B. and L.B. designed and implemented the cluster task distribution. A.E.S.B. and D.B. developed the GPU acceleration code. S.W. and M. Liu designed the FISH probes. E.M.C., P.K., M. Lessard, F.R.-M., M. Liu, S.W. and K.M.N. optimized sample preparation protocols and prepared samples. A.E.S.B., Y.L. and E.M.C. performed imaging experiments. A.E.S.B., Y.L. and D.B. performed post-localization analysis. All authors contributed to writing the manuscript.

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Supplementary Figs. 1–10, Notes 1–8 and Tables 1–4.

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Video showing a reconstruction of each of the 11,145 nuclei contributing to Fig. 4.

Video showing an automated acquisition using simulated hardware in PYMEAcquire with a ‘cluster of one’ for automated localization and recipe-based analysis.

Supplementary Table 5

LAD probe design including sequences of PCR primers, reverse transcription primers and activator oligos. The worksheet lists the sequences of the forward and reverse PCR primers and the reverse transcription primers used in the synthesis of each LAD probe library. The /5Alex647N/ in the sequences indicates 5′ Alexa Fluor 647 modifications of the DNA oligos.

Supplementary Table 6

Template sequences for LAD probe library syntheses. All oligonulceotide sequences in each template LAD probe library are compiled as a list. Different LAD libraries are placed in different worksheets labeled with the names of the LADs that the libraries target.

Supplementary Table 7

TAD probe design information including sequences of PCR primers and reverse transcription primers. The worksheet lists the sequences of the forward and reverse PCR primers and the reverse transcription primers used in the synthesis of the Chr22 probe library. The /5Biosg/ in the sequence indicates 5′ biotin modifications of the DNA oligos.

Supplementary Table 8

Template sequences for TAD probe library syntheses. All oligonulceotide sequences in each template LAD probe library are compiled as a list. Different LAD libraries are placed in different worksheets labeled with the names of the LADs that the libraries target.

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