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Launch of the Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology

CONTACT Karen Zusi-Tran kzusi@broadinstitute.org Cambridge, MA (November 29, 2022) — Nominations are now open for the first award of the Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health. Each year, the prize will celebrate a novel...

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October 16, 2024 F. William Studier receives the 2024 Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for developing technology used to produce millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines Produced by the Heritage Provider Network video team The 2024 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology was...

Contribute to the BBBC

We welcome contributions of the following: Image sets with descriptions and ground truth High-throughput image sets Published benchmarking results of algorithms applied to the BBBC image sets Corrections to existing descriptions or ground truth Feedback on the benchmarking methodology or other...

Introduction

CellProfiler Analyst (CPA) provides tools for classifying biological images and exploring and visualizing multidimensional data (particularly from high-throughput experiments) that has been extracted from companion image analysis software CellProfiler. CellProfiler Analyst’s primary tools: Image...

Human HT29 colon-cancer cells

Accession number BBBC008 · Version 1 Example images Biological application These images are of human HT29 colon cancer cells, a cell line that has been widely used for the study of many normal and neoplastic processes. A set of about 43,000 such images was used by Moffat et al. (Cell, 2006) to...

Murine bone-marrow derived macrophages

Accession number BBBC020 · Version 1 Note: BBBC has received a complaint that "BBB020_v1_outlines_nuclei" appears incomplete and we have been unable to obtain the missing images from the original contributor. Example Images Merged CD11b/APC DAPI Biological application These images depict bone-marrow...

Synthetic DIC Images

Accession number BBBC029 · Version 1 Example images DIC images Ground truth Images The dataset includes 218 simulated Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) images of 20 different binary and grayscale objects with various rotations. The images are available in noise-free version as well as with 20...

Mouse embryo blastocyst cells

Accession number BBBC032 · Version 1 Example images Description of the biological application Segmenting nuclei in 3D images can be challenging especially when nuclei are clustered not only in XY plane but also in XZ and YZ planes. Manually annotated ground truth provides a reference for image...

Induced pluripotent human stem cells

Accession number BBBC034 · Version 1 Example images Description of the biological application Segmenting nuclei in 3D images can be challenging especially when nuclei are clustered and have different intensity. This image set contains a clustered monolayer of nuclei that can be difficult to segment...

C. elegans live/dead assay

Accession number BBBC010· Version 1 Example images Positive: mostly alive Negative: mostly dead Biological application This selection of images are controls selected from a screen to find novel anti-infectives using the roundworm C.elegans . The animals were exposed to the pathogen Enterococcus...