MitochondriaΒΆ

It is also possible to read and write mitochondria from/to the h5 files (SWC and ASC are not supported). As mitochondria can be represented as trees, one can define the concept of mitochondrial section similar to neuronal section and end up with a similar API. The morphology object has a mitochondria handle method that exposes the basic methods:

  • root_sections: returns the section ID of the starting mitochondrial section of each

    mitochondrion.

  • section(id): returns a given mitochondrial section

  • append_section: creates a new mitochondrial section

  • depth_begin: a depth first iterator

  • breadth_begin: a breadth first iterator

  • upstream_begin: an upstream iterator

from morphio import MitochondriaPointLevel, PointLevel, SectionType
from morphio.mut import Morphology

morpho = Morphology()

# A neuronal section that will store mitochondria
section = morpho.append_root_section(
  PointLevel([[2, 2, 2], [3, 3, 3]], [4, 4], [5, 5]),
  SectionType.axon)

# Creating a new mitochondrion
mito_id = morpho.mitochondria.append_section(
  -1,
  MitochondriaPointLevel([section.id, section.id], # section id hosting the mitochondria point
                         [0.5, 0.6], # relative distance between the start of the section and the point
                         [10, 20] # mitochondria diameters
                         ))

# Appending a new mitochondrial section to the previous one
morpho.mitochondria.append_section(
  mito_id, MitochondriaPointLevel([0, 0, 0, 0],
                                  [0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9],
                                  [20, 30, 40, 50]))

# Iteration works the same as iteration on neuronal sections
first_root = morpho.mitochondria.root_sections[0]
for section_id in morpho.mitochondria.depth_begin(first_root):
  section = morpho.mitochondria.section(section_id)
  print('relative_path_length - diameter')
  for relative_path_length, diameter in zip(section.diameters,
                                            section.relative_path_lengths):
      print("{} - {}".format(relative_path_length, diameter))

Reading mithochondria from H5 files:

from morphio import Morphology

morpho = Morphology("file_with_mithochondria.h5")

for mitochondrial_section in morpho.mitochondria.root_sections:
  print('{neurite_id}, {relative_path_lengths}, {diameters}'.format(
        neurite_id=mitochondrial_section.neurite_section_ids,
        relative_path_lengths=mitochondrial_section.relative_path_lengths,
        diameters=mitochondrial_section.diameters))

  print("Number of children: {}".format(len(mitochondrial_section.children)))