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To unscramble an egg

Statistical analysis of single-molecule tracking data maps the number of states occupied by a molecule in a bacterial cell.

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Figure 1: Extracting information on diffusive states from single-molecule data.

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Yu, J. To unscramble an egg. Nat Methods 10, 208–209 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2379

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