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Jan Hansen edited this page Dec 30, 2022 · 2 revisions

Installing FIJI / ImageJ and MotiQ

Last update of this page on Dec 30, 2022.

Thus to use MotiQ you need to first have an ImageJ or FIJI software installation, downloaded to your computer. ImageJ/FIJI are open-source, freely available softwares that can be downloaded here. MotiQ's plugins can be installed either (A) via the Update Manager in ImageJ/FIJI (recommend) or (B) manually (if you don't have internet access fromy our FIJI/ImageJ2 or use a basic ImageJ installation, which does not contain the update manager).

(A) Installing MotiQ via the Update Manager

Since December 2022, MotiQ can be simply installed through FIJIs update manager. This also ensures that you always get the latest MotiQ release when you update your FIJI / ImageJ2. Pursue the installation as follows:

  • Go to the menu entry Help > Update in your FIJI.

  • A dialog pops up that loads update site information - wait for it to complete.

  • When it completed it will automatically close and open the following dialog (note that if you haven't updated your FIJI for a long time here may be a lot of updates listed - this is no problem you can just update everything along with installing MotiQ so just continue with the following descriptions).

  • Press OK in the "Your ImageJ is up to date"-message (if the message is displayed)

  • Click "Manage Update Sites". This will open another dialog, in which you need to check the MotiQ update site (you find it by scrolling down). Afterwards, press "Close".

  • Now, in the original update dialog you will see new modules added for installation. Click "apply changes".

  • The installation process may take some time, depending on the download speed. The installation process terminates with the following dialog:

  • Close FIJI and restart FIJI.

  • You can now verify that the "MotiQ" are installed.

    • To check that MotiQ is installed, verify that the menu entry Plugins > MotiQ is available.

(B) Installing MotiQ to a pure ImageJ / installing MotiQ manually

Use these installation instructions if ...

  • you use a pure ImageJ, which does not include the update manager
  • you cannot access the internet from your FIJI/ImageJ distribution
  • you do not want to use the update manager

Perform the installation as follows:

  • Download the MotiQ plugins (only the .jar files are needed) from the latest release at the release page.

  • Launch ImageJ and install the plugins by drag and drop into the ImageJ window (red marked region in the screenshot below)

  • Confirm the installations by pressing save in the upcoming dialog(s).

  • Next, ImageJ requires to be restarted (close it and start it again)

  • You can now verify that the "MotiQ" are installed.

    • To check that MotiQ is installed, verify that the menu entry Plugins > MotiQ is available.

Copyright (C) 2017-2024: Jan N. Hansen.

MotiQ is part of the following publication: Hansen et al., MotiQ: an open-source toolbox to quantify the cell motility and morphology of microglia, Molecular biology of the cell, 33:11 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E21-11-0585

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