AIC Knowledge Base #
Welcome! You’ve found the AIC Knowledge Base website. This is where we publish projects, resources, and blog posts about our image analysis endeavors. In the Projects pages, you will find all of our published code for image processing and analysis. The Resources pages contain a wealth of information about image informatics. Interested in getting a glimpse of what we do at the AIC, then check out our Blog.
Projects
So, you’ve just visited the AIC, and you’re now at home with terabytes of data. Processing and analyzing data from our microscopes can be challenging. It might not even be clear how to view your images. We recommend checking out our published code. These projects contains code for processing and analyzing large-scale images. Feel free to explore the documentation and code repositories.
Resources
Part of our job as data scientists is to keep an eye on the state of the image informatics community. We periodically conduct surveys of processing and analysis software. Are you just getting into image analysis? Check out some of our resource pages to get a leg up on your project. Do you know of some software that we missed in our surveys? Let us know!
Blog
Sometimes we work on projects that are exploratory or are pieces of a larger effort. If this work doesn’t result in a published Project, then we have likely written a blog post about it. Whenever possible, we try to document our activities. Check out our posts to see what we’ve been working on.
What is the Advanced Imaging Center? #
Jointly supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Advanced Imaging Center makes imaging technologies developed at Janelia available to the scientific community prior to commercialization. Scientific investigators from nonprofit organizations anywhere in the world may apply to use the facility.
Janelia scientists have created several revolutionary imaging methods and instruments – microscopes that reveal biological processes in three-dimensional detail and the behavior of single molecules in high resolution. But it often takes many years for these prototypes to become commercially available. During that window of time, access to the instruments is typically limited to scientists who collaborate with the inventors. This not only limits the number of researchers who can take advantage of the technology, but it also limits the time Janelia microscopists can invest in developing new instruments.
Our solution was to create the AIC. In alignment with Janelia’s philosophy of encouraging bold science, the AIC welcomes proposals with high-risk/high-gain projects. The AIC will cover lodging and basic experimental cost for scientists whose proposals have been accepted to come to Janelia to perform their experiments.
Check out the AIC main page