CellProfiler: Image analysis software for identifying and quantifying cell phenotypes

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Carpenter, Anne E ^a   Jones, Thouis R ^a,b   Lamprecht, Michael R ^a   Clarke, Colin ^a,b   Kang, In Han ^b   Friman, Ola ^c   Guertin, David A ^a   Chang, Joo Han ^a   Lindquist, Robert A ^a   Moffat, Jason ^a   Golland, Polina ^a   Sabatini, David M ^a,d  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; CELL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MUTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845792555     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r100     Document Type: Article

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