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Authors: Beth Cimini, John Kitchin, Andrew Rosen, and Anne Carpenter What is the COA form? NSF requires you to report all “Co-authors on any book, article, report, abstract or paper with collaboration in the last 48 months” in Table 4 of the COA form, for certain people (e.g. PI, Co-PI, Senior/Key...

Minh Doan Have you ever stumbled across some amazing data visualization tools that run entirely on a web browser (such as this and many others), and wished you could plug in your own data and visualize it? Or, as a biologist, you may know of a good analytic tool, but it either costs too much...

Beth Cimini For those of you who’ve been with us for a long time though, the obvious next question after how to use the new test mode is will my old CellProfiler pipelines work in the new version? We feel the same way – the pipelines you’ve accumulated over the years are precious resources! The good...

Kyle Karhohs Now that CellProfiler can handle 3D images, how do you view the results? When processing 2D images, the IdentifyPrimaryObjects module will produce a figure that displays the original image next to the segmented image to make validation fast and convenient, a side-by-side comparison...

Anne Carpenter Biologists are coming up with more and more complex physiologically-relevant assay systems and scaling them up for screens. From co-cultured cells to C. elegans to 3D organoids and tumor spheroids, these assay systems can be challenging, expensive, lower-throughput, and/or rely on...

Kyle Karhohs Joining forces CellProfiler is capable of accurate and reliable segmentation of cells by utilizing a broad collection of classical image processing methods. Peruse the documentation on the IdentifyPrimaryObjects module, for example, to get a sense of these, e.g., thresholding...

Beth Cimini Defining the input to CellProfiler can be the hardest part of getting your pipeline set up and your analysis underway. Incoming images are configured in the first 4 modules of CellProfiler – Images, Metadata, NamesAndTypes, and Groups – which offer lots of flexibility. But it’s sometimes...