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Episode 1 - Identifying Objects in Out-of-Focus Images in CellProfiler   folder here CC-0  
Episode 2 - Downloading Data from the IDR       Cyberduck, IDR, IDR download instructions - with great updates since we last filmed!
Episode 3 - QC on High Content Datasets using CellProfiler and Fiji Segmentation Pipeline, FIJI montage script Download instructions for an example plate of images CC0 1.0 Current Protocols manuscript first introducing this approach
Episode 4 - Proprietary File Formats in Fiji and CellProfiler Pipelines available here idr0056-stojic-Incrnas/screenC, folder here CC BY 4.0 CellProfiler Input Modules tutorial
Episode 5 - Handling Multinucleate Cells in CellProfiler Pipelines available here idr0056-stojic-Incrnas/screenC, folder here CC BY 4.0 Learn more about CellProfiler’s plugin system
Episode 6 - Load Data in CellProfiler Example load_data.csv. Many more example load_data.csv available in the Cell Painting Gallery     Automatically make LoadData.csv from Perkin Elmer microscopes with pe2loaddata, More on Input modules (the alternative to LoadData)
Episode 7 - Segmenting Speckles in CellProfiler Pipeline available here idr0123-mota-mifish/experimentA, folder here CC BY 4.0 CellProfiler example page, including a speckles example
Episode 8 - Using Plugins in CellProfiler       Learn more about CellProfiler’s plugin system, CellProfiler-plugins repository , Read the CellProfiler Plugins Paper
Episode 9 - Measuring Percent Positive in CellProfiler Pipelines available here idr0139-lawson-fascin/screenB, idr0123-mota-mifish/experimentA, folder here CC BY 4.0  
Episode 10 - Images with 0’s: Masks and Measuring Distances from 0’s in CellProfiler Pipeline available here Images available here CC-0  
Episode 11 - Intro to Pixel Classification in ilastik - Coming Soon!   BBBC030, BBBC031 Both CC BY 3.0 ilastik website, Tutorial for combining ilastik and CellProfiler
Episode 12 - Importing Object from Outline Images in CellProfiler- Coming Soon! Pipeline available here Images available here CC-0  
Episode 13 - How to Train a Pixel Classifier - Coming Soon!        

Ask Erin/Dear Beth is partially funded by grants from both the NIH (P41 GM135019) and CZI (2023-329649) to BAC - but our funders aren’t responsible for any of the cursing!

Bonus Episodes!

Want to hang out with Erin and Beth without talking science? Check out our bonus episodes where we talk about other stuff we love, like:

Bonus episodes with link Links to any fun things
Episode 6.5 - In which we tell the story of how we know each other N/A