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. 2016 Jan 4;212(1):91–111. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201506018

Figure 4.

Figure 4.

Morphodynamic signature extraction. (a) Schematics of two distinct feature analysis levels. Static population-level and dynamic cell-level features are considered. (b) Feature extraction procedure. z-score vector defines statistical significance, penetrance, and polarity of measured feature distributions of control compared with siRNA-treated cells. (c) Deconvolution of RNAi OFF-target effects. For each given feature: (1) if the three siRNA perturbations lead to a z-score with identical polarity, the mean z-score is computed; (2) if two of three siRNA perturbations lead to a z-score with identical polarity, the mean z-score for the two features with the same polarity is computed; (3) if the three siRNA perturbations yield three different z-score polarities, then the z feature score is set to 0. (d) Raw image (left, inverted black-and-white contrast), HDS graph representation (middle), and cell migration tracks (right) for SrGAP2, MKK7, and RhoA siRNA perturbations are shown. Bar, 50 µm. (e and f) Gene-associated MDSs represented by a color map. (e) LS feature set; (f) HS feature set. z-score scale is also shown. (g) Normalized histograms of representative feature distribution profiles. The data were normalized dividing each histogram value by the histogram area. Vertical bars represent the mean. The z-score associated with each feature is also shown.