About rapidSTORM

rapidSTORM is a localization microscopy evaluation program. It is designed to find and precisely localize fluorophores in super-resolvable movies such as those generated by the PALM or dSTORM techniques.

Resources

• Online manual
• Installation & Downloads
• Mailing list
• Source code

Compilation from source

Compilation from source requires the following libraries, which are available from Debian and the Web:

• Eigen 3
• Boost 1.46
• GraphicsMagick 1
• libtiff 4
• wxWidgets 2.8
• GNU Scientific Library
• tinyxml

Additionally, a few lesser-known libraries are optional. We have packaged all of these libraries and made them available from our homepage at https://stevewolter.github.io/rapidSTORM/:

• libreadsif 1.4: Library maintained by the rapidSTORM team based on code kindly released by Andor technologies for reading Andor SIF files.
• libb64: Base64 encoding/decoding library by Chris Venter

On Debian or Ubuntu systems, you can add our repository to the sources as described on the website, and install all dependencies as:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep rapidstorm

If you have cloned the git repository (instead of using the release .tar.gz), you need to run autoreconf to create the configure script. This requires the autoconf-archive scripts.

$ sudo apt-get install autoconf-archive
# In the source directory:
$ autoreconf --install