This is a data repository for the upcoming publication "The 3D chirality of malaria parasites determines their motion patterns in 2D and originates at the apical pole". It includes example data for the different experimental setups, which can be used to run the analysis code. The code is available in the git repository github.com/LeonLettermann/hei-sporo-code and therein linked repositories.

We present data for three different experiments here:

3D microscopy of sporozoites moving through hydrogels
Two-sided traction force of circling sporozoites
STED super-resolution microscopy of sporozoites underneath a hydrogel

For experiments 1 and 2, the data are presented as .mvd2 microscopy raw data, which can be opened and analyzed with the provided Python code. For experiment 3, we present a deconvoluted image as a .tif file. Additionally, different intermediate analysis results supporting experimentation with the provided code are available as .npy files.