PyReconstruct user guide
This page and its subpages serve as a preliminary user guide for PyReconstruct, an extensible successor to RECONSTRUCT™ written from the ground up in Python. Please have a look at the source code on our lab's GitHub site. Question can be directed toward PyReconstruct's primary developers, Julian Falco (julian.falco@utexas.edu) and Michael Chirillo (m.chirillo@utexas.edu). You can navigate around this wiki by clicking the links below or in the sidebar to the left.
Citation for PyReconstruct:
Chirillo MA, Falco JN, Musslewhite MD, Lindsey LF, Harris KM. (2025) PyReconstruct: A fully open-source, collaborative successor to Reconstruct. PNAS 122 (31) e2505822122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505822122
Research Resource ID for PyReconstruct: RRID:SCR_027562
| Install PyReconstruct and get it up and running. | |
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| Go all out and get the developer version of PyReconstruct. | |
| Start a new series and begin tracing. | |
| Understand the layout and the various functions of the main window. | |
| Find out more about alignments and aligning. | |
| Get access to lists and list operations. | |
| Learn how to filter using regular expressions. | |
| Perform operations with and to your series. | |
| Visualize objects in three dimensions. | |
| Make sure your work is in tip-top shape. | |
| Leave comments in the field, assign curators to objects, and more. | |
| Explore a random collection of possibilities. |