The imaging tsunami: Computational opportunities and challenges

Wei Ouyang (1, 2) , Christophe Zimmer (1, 2)

1 Imagerie et Modélisation - Imaging and Modeling
2 C3BI - Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative

Microscopy has fueled biological discoveries for centuries, but technical progress during the last decades has greatly expanded the type and quantity of biological information that can be revealed by imaging. Advances in instrumentation, labeling and computation are driving an imaging data tsunami on par with that of DNA sequencing. We illustrate this trend on five data intensive microscopy techniques and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that massive imaging data raise for our understanding of biological systems.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Bioengineering; Imaging

Wei Ouyang, Christophe Zimmer. The imaging tsunami: Computational opportunities and challenges. Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 2017, Big data acquisition and analysis • Pharmacology and drug discovery, 4, pp.105-113. ⟨10.1016/j.coisb.2017.07.011⟩. ⟨pasteur-02492825⟩