Welcome!#

Most of us study and work at the Bio-image Analysis Technology Development group at the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Physics of Life” at the TU Dresden. We blog about image data science, knowledge exchange and research data management in the life sciences. The contents of this blog are licensed by the respective authors under CC-BY 4.0 license unless a different license is specified.

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Recent blog posts#

Running bio image analysis workflows on your machine#

Stefan Hahmann, December 21st, 2023
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Jupyter Notebooks may be used to run bio image analysis workflows on your machine with your own data. They are a great tool to share workflows with others. This post will show you how to run workflows that have been shared via GitHub.

Getting started with Miniforge and Python#

Mara Lampert, January 26th, 2023
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This post will help you to get started with Python using Miniforge. More precisely, you will learn how to install Miniforge, how to create and use conda environments and know about some very important packages.

Using GPU-accelerated image processing on the TUD HPC cluster#

Till Korten, Oct 21st, 2022
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The High Performance Computing cluster at the compute center (ZIH) of the TU Dresden provides a lot of computational resources including GPU support, which we can use for analyzing data in the life-sciences.

Setting up GPU-accelerated image processing on the TUD HPC cluster#

Till Korten, July 29th, 2022
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The High Performance Computing cluster at the compute center (ZIH) of the TU Dresden provides a lot of computational resources including GPU support, which we can use for analyzing data in the life-sciences.

Running Deep-learning Scripts in the BiA-PoL Omero Server#

Marcelo Zoccoler, May 2nd, 2022
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This blog post explains how to run omero scripts in the BiA-PoL omero server. In this example, we execute a script on the server that runs a 2D Stardist model on a sample image.

Mini-Sabbatical Experience at Bia-PoL#

Friederike Kessel, February 28th, 2022
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This is a blog post about the personal experience of Rike, a post-doc who had just finished her PhD at the University Clinic in Dresden. She spent a two weeks training period at BiA-PoL working with image analysis.

Getting started with Python and Anaconda#

Johannes Müller, January 26th, 2022
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This post will help you to get started with using Python. More specifically, it will help you set up Anaconda environments which can be used to control installed packages effectively.

GUIs: Creating graphical user interfaces with/for Python, Part IV#

Marcelo Zoccoler, Johannes Müller, December 15th, 2021
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Last part of this series, this post will teach you how to turn your napari GUI/widget into a napari plugin and publish it on Pypi, so everyone can access it, install it and benefit from your contribution.

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Acknowledgements#

We acknowledge the support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC2068 - Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life of TU Dresden.

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