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Anne Carpenter As the PI of the Carpenter lab (a.k.a. Broad Institute Imaging Platform, including the CellProfiler team), people often ask how I manage so many ongoing collaborations: we discuss 50+ external projects each year so it is a lot to track! I am happy to reveal our secrets. The goal First...

Beth Cimini Double clicking on the output images produced by CellProfiler sometimes opens up a screen in your operating system’s default image viewer that looks all black. This can make it seem like your pipeline didn’t work or didn’t produce the right output. However, this can happen for a couple...

Minh Doan Thanks to the rapid advancement in image processing, we now have so many techniques to characterize cellular and subcellular objects (hooray CellProfiler!) Measuring cultured cells in monolayers is (usually) easy…but what about examining how cells interact with each other and their...

Beth Cimini Defining the input to CellProfiler can be the hardest part of getting your pipeline set up and your analysis underway. Incoming images are configured in the first 4 modules of CellProfiler – Images, Metadata, NamesAndTypes, and Groups – which offer lots of flexibility. But it’s sometimes...

Anne Carpenter So you already know how to put together an image analysis pipeline to measure particular phenotypes of interest? Great! Have you ever considered looking for the unexpected? Say you are comparing two treatment conditions, such as a negative control vs. a hormone treatment. You may have...