This dataset supports the findings of the research article “FcsIT: An Open-Source, Cross-Platform Tool for Correlation and Analysis of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Data”. The article introduces FcsIT, an open-source, cross-platform application for calculating, statistically characterising, and fitting fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) data. FcsIT reads time-tagged, time-resolved measurements, supports TCSPC-based filtering of photon data, calculates correlation curves using input-dependent multipletau or asynchronous time-tag-to-correlation algorithms, estimates correlation-curve uncertainties through bootstrap resampling of segment-wise curves, and provides predefined and user-defined fitting models. The study validates the correlation and fitting workflow using simulated data with known ground-truth parameters and experimental Rhodamine 110 measurements, and compares it with a commercial reference workflow.
The deposited data measurements comprise 16 independently simulated 60 s fluorescence-intensity traces, each containing two detection channels, and 45 experimental PicoQuant PTU datafiles. The experimental measurements contain five repeats for each acquisition time of 5, 10, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, and 150 s. The repository also contains references to ACF data obtained with the commercial software, FCSIT correlation curves, fitting results, processing files, and full-trace nested-loop autocorrelation references. The simulated and experimental data were processed with FcsIT v2.0.2 for circular-block bootstrap block lengths L=1 to L=6 and a range of valid segment counts. Time-binned simulation data were additionally analysed using both the “average” and “first” multipletau compression conventions. The deposited data and scripts reproduce the analyses from Figures 5–8 of the article and the corresponding supplementary figures.
The published repository contains four archive groups. The multipart archive consists of Raw_data_1.zip, Raw_data_1.z01, and Raw_data_1.z02; all three files must be downloaded, kept together, and extracted by opening Raw_data_1.zip. It contains the simulated traces in the form of TXT files, experimental PTU data files, reference results from commercial software, completed FcsIT outputs, and intermediate analysis files. CLI_scripts.zip contains readable Linux shell and Windows batch workflows that automate correlation and fitting through the FcsIT TCP/JSON interface, together with a Python implementation of the unsegmented nested-loop simulation reference. Figures_1.zip contains plotting scripts, prepared CSV summary tables, plotting metadata, and recorded environment versions for Figures 5–8 and the supplementary analyses. Common_MCELL_FERNET_config_files.zip contains the MCell 3 and FERNET 1.4 configuration files used to generate the simulated fluorescence data.
Detailed extraction instructions, archive inventories, software requirements, processing order, analysis settings, and figure-reconstruction commands are described in README.md.
(2026-11-10)