As part of a global initiative, researchers have drawn up guidelines for the publication of microscopy images in scientific outlets. The criteria, summarized in the form of checklists, form the basis for ensuring that published bioimaging data in the field of life sciences and medicine are intelligible and that the corresponding research is reproducible. This is the only way to unlock their full potential for research.
in publication figures, providing scale information, and a responsible choice of contrast adjustments, to sharing image data on public archives and making accessible the analysis pipeline on cloud computing platforms."are published in life sciences and medicine each year. Approximately one-third of them include images, such as microscopy data of cells or tissues. However, most of these images cannot be fully understood by the target audience, because key information is missing, e.g.
"Scientists around the world and leading scientific journals have signaled an urgent need for publication standards for microscopy images," said Helena Jambor, the initiator of the working group responsible for the guidelines, an author of the scientific paper, and a scientist at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden and at University Medicine Dresden.
The group's checklists offer some very specific guidance, for instance, making sure that relevant image sections are selected, that color channels are named in fluorescence microscopy images, and that the colors chosen can be distinguished by readers who are color blind.
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