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COBA's mission is to serve the biology community’s growing need for sophisticated software for light microscopy image analysis. We will do this in two main ways: In collaboration with biological partner labs we will create new tools and improve existing tools to make new analyses possible and...

The Center for Open Bioimage Analysis (COBA) at Broad Institute and LOCI UW-Madison, as well as the Fiji development team at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, is pleased to formally announce the 2022 “From Images to Knowledge with ImageJ & Friends (I2K)”...

COBA paper on ImageJ and CellProfiler rated #1 in Altmetrics for Best of Current Protocols 2021! ImageJ and CellProfiler: Complements in Open-Source Bioimage Analysis ImageJ and CellProfiler have long been leading open-source platforms in the field of bioimage analysis. ImageJ's traditional strength...

BMC Bioinformatics published a paper by members of the COBA team detailing the release of CellProfiler 4. CellProfiler 4 provides significantly improved performance in complex workflows compared to previous versions. This release will ensure that researchers will have continued access to...

The results of the 2020 BioImage Analysis Survey have been published online by Cambridge University Press. In this paper, we summarize a global survey of 484 participants of the imaging community, conducted in 2020 through the NIH Center for Open BioImage Analysis (COBA). Read the paper here.