Every bacterium eaten, found and timed.
Open a time-lapse microscopy film and the Analyzer finds each bacterium taken up by a cell, follows it, and tells you whether the cell killed it — and how long that took — or failed to. You review; it does the counting.
Built for the way a lab scores a film
The same events a person would mark by hand, in the same shape — without the hours.
Finds every uptake
Cells are segmented by a deep-learning model running on your Mac's GPU and tracked through the film; bacteria are detected and followed frame by frame.
Kills, timed
A kill is a bacterium that goes inside and is broken down. You get the frame it entered, the frame it was gone, and the time in between.
Failed kills, too
A cell still holding its bacterium when the film ends is a result, not noise. Failed kills are found from the cell, so a crowded field does not hide them.
You stay the judge
Events are ranked by how clear they are. Confirm, reject, correct the frames or add one that was missed; your review is saved beside the film.
How it works
Four steps, all on your Mac. Pick one to see it in the film.
A workbook you can use
The same columns as a hand-scored sheet, plus the outcome as a number you can count and average.
| Event | Frame start | Frame end | Duration (frames) | Duration (min) | Outcome | Outcome code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 27 | 15 | 7.5 | Killed | 1 |
| 2 | 31 | 241 | 210 | 105.0 | Failed kill | 0 |
| 3 | 48 | 59 | 11 | 5.5 | Killed | 1 |
Rows here come from the simulation above as it runs. Illustrative only.
Your films stay on your Mac
All analysis runs locally. No film, image, file name or result is ever sent anywhere. The program reports only anonymous usage counts and checks its licence — exactly what, and why.
Download
Requires a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 13 or newer. 8 GB of memory is enough; more is faster. A licence is needed to run it — ask us for one.
Installing
- Open the downloaded
.dmgand drag Phagocytosis Analyzer into Applications. - Open it. The app is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a security warning.
- Click Choose licence file… and select the
licence.keyyou were sent.
A renewed licence is installed the same way, from Help → Install new licence…
Contact
For a licence, a question, or a film that does not analyse the way you expect.