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Main Authors: Xu, Lance W. Q., Pressé, Steve
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13668
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author Xu, Lance W. Q.
Pressé, Steve
author_facet Xu, Lance W. Q.
Pressé, Steve
contents Tracking single fluorescent molecules has offered resolution into dynamic molecular processes at the single-molecule level. This perspective traces the evolution of single-molecule tracking, highlighting key developments across various methodological branches within fluorescence microscopy. We compare the strengths and limitations of each approach, ranging from conventional widefield offline tracking to real-time confocal tracking. In the final section, we explore emerging efforts to advance physics-inspired tracking techniques, a possibility for parallelization and artificial intelligence, and discuss challenges and opportunities they present toward achieving higher spatiotemporal resolution and greater computational and data efficiency in next-generation single-molecule studies.
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spellingShingle Perspective: An outlook on fluorescence tracking
Xu, Lance W. Q.
Pressé, Steve
Biological Physics
Computation
Tracking single fluorescent molecules has offered resolution into dynamic molecular processes at the single-molecule level. This perspective traces the evolution of single-molecule tracking, highlighting key developments across various methodological branches within fluorescence microscopy. We compare the strengths and limitations of each approach, ranging from conventional widefield offline tracking to real-time confocal tracking. In the final section, we explore emerging efforts to advance physics-inspired tracking techniques, a possibility for parallelization and artificial intelligence, and discuss challenges and opportunities they present toward achieving higher spatiotemporal resolution and greater computational and data efficiency in next-generation single-molecule studies.
title Perspective: An outlook on fluorescence tracking
topic Biological Physics
Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13668