GloBIAS: strengthening the foundations of bioimage analysis

Agustin A. Corbat, Christa G. Walther, Laura R. de la Ballina, Nicholas D. Condon, Alessandro A. Felder, Martin Schätz, Bettina Schmerl, Ko Sugawara, Clara Prats, Anna Klemm, Kota Miura, Paula Sampaio, Christian Tischer, Florian Levet, Rocco D’Antuono, Beth A. Cimini, Robert Haase
Nature Methods. 2026-04-22; :
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-026-03060-7

Corbat AA(#)(1)(2), Walther CG(#)(3)(4), de la Ballina LR(#)(5)(6), Condon
ND(7), Felder AA(8), Schätz M(9)(10), Schmerl B(11), Sugawara K(12), Prats
C(13), Klemm A(1), Miura K(14), Sampaio P(15), Tischer C(16), Levet F(17)(18),
D’Antuono R(19)(20), Cimini BA(21), Haase R(22).

Author information:
(1)BioImage Informatics Unit, Science for Life Laboratory and Department of
Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
(2)Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y
Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
(3)German BioImaging – Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V.,
Konstanz, Germany.
(4)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
(5)Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty
of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
(6)Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, The
Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
(7)Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia.
(8)Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, Advanced Research Computing, University College
London, London, UK.
(9)Viničná Microscopy Core Facility, Faculty of Science, Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic.
(10)Department of Mathematics Informatics and Cybernetics, University of
Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic.
(11)Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
(12)Laboratory for Developmental Dynamics, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics
Research, Kobe, Japan.
(13)Danish BioImaging Infrastructure, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
(14)Bioimage Analysis & Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
(15)i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto,
Porto, Portugal.
(16)EMBL, Data Science Centre, Heidelberg, Germany.
(17)Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS,
UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France. .
(18)Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, INSERM, Bordeaux Imaging Center, BIC, UAR3420, US 4,
Bordeaux, France. .
(19)Crick Advanced Light Microscopy STP, The Francis Crick Institute, London,
UK. .
(20)Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Sciences,
University of Reading, Reading, UK. .
(21)Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
.
(22)Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI)
Dresden/Leipzig, Universitat Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
.
(#)Contributed equally