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Cimini Lab resources

Below are ways to collaborate our lab, pointers to our software and its documentation, and the educational resources and papers we have been a part of. We hope these resources help you out!

This page last updated 2025-Feb-06

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Work with us Software Educational materials Papers

Work with us

Lab website

Office hours link

CellProfiler annual support plan

COBA signup form

Beth’s Broad bio page with contact email

Google Summer of Code 2025 Project ideas

Software we make

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CellProfiler CellProfiler Analyst Piximi Distributed Something Bilayers

CellProfiler

downloads

manual

plugins documentation

tutorials

GitHub

help forum

pipeline suggester

papers - CellProfiler-plugins [2023] / CellProfiler 4 [2021] / CellProfiler 3 [2018]

CellProfiler Analyst

downloads

manual

GitHub

help forum

papers - CellProfiler Analyst 3 [2021]

Piximi

Piximi.app

manual

GitHub

help forum

preprint

Distributed-Something

GitHub

paper

Distributed tools - Distributed-CellProfiler / Distributed-Collate / Distributed-DeepProfiler / Distributed-Fiji / Distributed-HelloWorld / Distributed-OMEZarrCreator

Bilayers

demo app

documentation

GitHub

Dockerhub

Educational materials

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Educational papers Things we lead Major contributors Minor contributors

Educational papers we wrote

The Twenty Questions of Bioimage Object Analysis[2023] / Tool implementation

A biologist’s guide to planning and performing quantitative bioimaging experiments[2023]

Creating and troubleshooting microscopy analysis workflows: Common challenges and common solutions[2024]

A postdoctoral training program in bioimage analysis[2024]

Things we lead

Lab website

Lab paper page

Current lab preprints (from Beth’s CV)

Imaging Platform Blog

YouTube tutorials

Office hours link

The Scientific Community Image Forum - Forum.image.sc / Paper - Scientific Community Image Forum: A discussion forum for scientific image software[2019]

COBA website

Bioimaging Guide - English / Spanish / Portuguese / Czech

The Image Based Profiling Handbook

The Cell Painting Gallery (image repository) - AWS RODA Website / Explore on Quilt / Paper - Cell Painting Gallery: an open resource for image-based profiling[2024]

Things we are major (but far from sole) contributors to

Global Bioimage Analysts’ Society (GloBIAS) Global Registries - For bioimage analysts / For bioimage analysis trainers

Virtual I2K Meeting - 2023 edition / 2024 edition

Things we contributed to (but others led)

Online guide for checklists for imaging and image analysis / Paper - Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analysis [2023]

Metrics Reloaded online metric chooser / Paper 1 - Metrics reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation[2024] / Paper 2 - Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation[2024]

Microtutor imaging education platform

Papers you might find useful

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Protocols Reviews Community Surveys Opinions/Perspectives

Protocols

ImageJ and CellProfiler: Complements in Open-Source Bioimage Analysis[2020]

Interpreting image-based profiles using Morpheus and single-cell visualization[2023]

Optimizing the Cell Painting assay for image-based profiling[2023]

Reviews

Open-source deep-learning software for bioimage segmentation[2021]

Defining the boundaries: challenges and advances in identifying cells in microscopy images[2024]

Community Surveys

2020 BioImage Analysis Survey: Community experiences and needs for the future[2021]

Bridging Imaging Users to Imaging Analysis - A community survey[2023]

Opinions/Perspectives

Moving beyond the desktop: Prospects for Practical Bioimage Analysis via the Web[2023]

Building momentum through networks: Bioimaging across the Americas[2024]

The Crucial Role of BioImage Analysts in Scientific Research and Publication[2024]

A Call for FAIR and Open-Access Training Materials to advance Bioimage Analysis (preprint)[2024]

Harmonizing the Generation and Pre-publication Stewardship of FAIR Image Data (preprint)[2024]

Enabling Global Image Data Sharing in the Life Sciences (preprint)[2024]