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CellProfiler Analyst: data exploration and analysis software for complex image-based screens

Thouis R Jones1,2,3 email, In Han Kang3 email, Douglas B Wheeler2 email, Robert A Lindquist2 email, Adam Papallo1,2 email, David M Sabatini2,4 email, Polina Golland3 email and Anne E Carpenter1,2 email

Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:482doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-482

Published: 15 November 2008

Abstract

Background

Image-based screens can produce hundreds of measured features for each of hundreds of millions of individual cells in a single experiment.

Results

Here, we describe CellProfiler Analyst, open-source software for the interactive exploration and analysis of multidimensional data, particularly data from high-throughput, image-based experiments.

Conclusion

The system enables interactive data exploration for image-based screens and automated scoring of complex phenotypes that require combinations of multiple measured features per cell.


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