Automated imaging: data as far as the eye can see
Caitlin Smith & Michael Eisenstein

Automating the microscopy and imaging process simplifies the testing of large numbers of compounds or growth conditions, and the subsequent monitoring of many different phenotypic indicators, giving researchers the power to dramatically scale up their cell-based assays. Caitlin Smith and Michael Eisenstein report.

BioImagene's CellMine™ software is another possibility for labs looking to move into HCS. CellMine™ is user-friendly, yet flexible, featuring a built-in workflow that can be customized to meet users' specific needs. Of course, HCS poses a serious data management problem—not only for storage, but also for locating or correlating data—and with this in mind, BioImagene offers its SIMS™ software, which receives measured parameters and images from CellMine. SIMS™ is a complete image management platform that can be used to store, browse and search images across all your data. Combining CellMine and SIMS™ makes it easier to find and analyze data because the high-content measurements are aggregated with the associated images.

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