Share your images - We invite you to share your images

We invite you to share your images and videos in this library. We are accumulating images of all cell types from all organisms, including intracellular structures and movies or animations demonstrating functions. This ambitious project obviously is multiyear and relies upon the cell biology community to populate the library. The Cell Image Library™ aims to be as useful to the researcher and the public as are the sequence databases for nucleic acids and proteins. Raw data as well as data with limited processing will be the most valuable.

Please join us in this effort by allowing us to include your image collections and videos in this open access library, and by sharing your raw data.

If you wish to submit images please e-mail David Orloff at dorloff@ncmir.ucsd.edu for assistance.

Help Us Build The Library Interested in helping us build the Library? Download this flyer and post it in your lab and distribute to your colleagues. Click the image below to view full size.

Describing Your Images

To be searchable, each image will be entered into the library database with specific information that allows its identification during a user’s search. To aid in the annotation process, we ask that you supply us with as much information as you can about your images, including:

Biological Source (organism, cell type, cellular components, and fixation method, sectioning, etc. if applicable)
Biological Context and Probe (e.g., mitotic spindle during division labeled with tubulin primary antibody and Alexa 488 secondary or EGFP-tubulin)
Equipment used (e.g., microscope manufacturer, objective with NA, camera, confocal)
Acquisition parameters for time series (e.g., taken at 2 frames per second or confocal z stack taken with 1 Airy unit slices), post-processing of still images, if any
Magnification of image (either a scale bar or a note with microns/pixel)

Please include your contact information to allow the annotators to get in touch with you if they have any further questions about the image. This contact information will not be made public.