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PoCA is packaged as a one-click installer for the Windows operating system. The source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/flevet/PoCA) under a LGPL v3 license. We provide a cmake script to facilitate its building inside other operating systems. The documentation is available at https://poca-smlm.github.io/.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (ANR-20-CE11-0006 NANO-SYNATLAS to F.L.), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine and the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm). We also acknowledge France-BioImaging infrastructure supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR-10-INBS-04).
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F.L. originated the idea and developed the software. F.L. and J.-B.S. designed the software requirements and contributed to the manuscript.
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Levet, F., Sibarita, JB. PoCA: a software platform for point cloud data visualization and quantification. Nat Methods (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01811-4
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