migrationminer is a R package to analyse and profile in vitro cell tracking and migration data. It is belongs to the cytominer-verse used for morphological profiling and allows to create temporal or dynamic profiles.

It works well together with CellProiler and the CellProfiler tracking module. Beside that it is quite easy to parse other formats as long as the tracking data is available in tidy format. That means, that the data is available as csv where each row represents a cell with at least four columns

• x coordinate
• y coordinate
• time point
• track label

migrationminer is not yet available from CRAN but you can install directly from github. First, you need to install the devtools package. You can do this from CRAN. Invoke R and then type

install.packages("devtools")

Load the package using

library(devtools)

Now install migrationminer from github using

install_github("cells2numbers/migrationminer")

You should see something like

Downloading GitHub repo cells2numbers/migrationminer@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/cells2numbers/migrationminer/zipball/master
Installing migrationminer
'/usr/local/Cellar/r/3.4.1_2/lib/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/private/var/folders/qq/v5mwx8g15655gt708s86vys8yzcpll/T/RtmpUyrzzK/devtoolse7f945c7b360/cells2numbers-migrationminer-8a95c5d'  \
  --library='/usr/local/lib/R/3.4/site-library' --install-tests 

* installing *source* package ‘migrationminer’ ...
** R
** tests
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (migrationminer)
Reloading installed migrationminer

If this does not work for you or you find any bugs, please file an issue!