This focal adhesion package is a MATLAB software that tracks, segments, classifies and analyzes the time series of focal- and nascent adhesions in an adhesion time-lapse images.
It is associated with the paper, Pre-complexation of talin and vinculin without tension is required for efficient nascent adhesion maturation, eLife, 2021, 10:e66151, written by Sangyoon J Han, Evgenia V Azarova, Austin J Whitewood, Alexia Bachir, Edgar Guttierrez, Alex Groisman, Alan R Horwitz, Benjamin T Goult, Kevin M Dean, Gaudenz Danuser.
Please refer to the software version available at https://github.com/HanLab-BME-MTU/focalAdhesionPackage.git, which is the version used in the paper by Han et al. (2021).