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Why bioimage informatics matters

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Driven by the importance of spatial and physical factors in cellular processes and the size and complexity of modern image data, computational analysis of biological imagery has become a vital emerging sub-discipline of bioinformatics and computer vision.

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  1. Gene Myers is at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.,

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Myers, G. Why bioimage informatics matters. Nat Methods 9, 659–660 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2024

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