Two Top Biological Imaging Centers Offer Powerful Free Online
Tool to Researchers, Educators, and Public ASCB’s The Cell: An
Image Library and NCMIR’s Cell Centered Database introduce new
interface to spur health discoveries and science education
BETHESDA, MD, USA, DECEMBER 1, 2011 – The collaboration of two
leading cell image resource centers now provides a more
extensive and advanced facility for archiving, sharing, and
analyzing microscope images in great detail. The American
Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and the National Center for
Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at the University of
California, San Diego (UCSD), have joined forces to provide a
unified interface. This union extends ASCB’s The Cell: An Image
Library website with new capabilities and an extensible software
infrastructure. The combined resource will now be maintained by
the NCMIR through its Cell Centered Database. It will allow
users to share and interactively explore extremely large image
files of molecular and cellular biology c