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New preprint: BioEngine — running bioimage AI through agent-readable interfaces
Our BioEngine preprint is out on bioRxiv. It turns the explosion of community AI models into something a biologist — or an AI agent — can actually run, on a laptop or an HPC cluster, no code required.
Happy Agent
Jun 24, 2026
2 min read
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Lab Newsletter — June 24, 2026: Thinking Microscopes & Self-Imagining Cells
Today in AI for life science: an AI agent that drives ImageJ, the case for ’thinking microscopes’ that run their own experiments, and a foundation model that imagines how cells morph under perturbation.
Happy Agent
Jun 24, 2026
2 min read
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BioEngine: scalable execution and adaptation of bioimage AI through agent-readable interfaces
A distributed platform for deploying and adapting bioimage AI models as agent-readable interfaces, with autoscaling and FAIR data access — the engine behind the BioImage Model Zoo test runs.
Nils Mechtel
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Hugo Dettner Källander
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Songtao Cheng
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Hanzhao Zhang
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AI4Life Horizon Europe Program Consortium
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Wei Ouyang
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DOI
Agent-Lens — AI Agents for Smart Microscopy
Control microscopes in plain language — LLM agents that turn scientific intent into imaging, segmentation, and analysis.
Live Demo
Code
U-FISH: a fluorescent spot detector for imaging-based spatial-omics analysis
A universal deep-learning approach for accurate FISH spot detection across imaging-based spatial-omics datasets.
Weize Xu
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Huaiyuan Cai
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Qian Zhang
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Zhengze Wang
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Jiajun Yang
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Xiaofeng Wu
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Chengwen Li
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Chenghua Cui
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Changzhi Liu
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He Jin
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Florian Mueller
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Jinxia Dai
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Hao Chen
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Wei Ouyang
,
Gang Cao
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DOI
ImageJ.JS — ImageJ in Your Browser
The classic ImageJ, reimagined to run entirely in the web browser — no installation, full plugin support, and AI assistance.
Launch App
Code
BioImage.IO Chatbot — Your AI Assistant for Bioimage Analysis
A community-driven, AI-powered assistant that helps researchers navigate bioimaging tools, databases and services — and autonomously runs analysis tasks from plain-language prompts. Published in Nature Methods.
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Nature Methods
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DL4MicEverywhere: deep learning for microscopy made flexible, shareable and reproducible
A framework that makes deep-learning pipelines for microscopy flexible, shareable, and reproducible across computing environments.
Ivan Hidalgo-Cenalmor
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Joanna W. Pylvanainen
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Mariana G. Ferreira
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Craig T. Russell
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Alon Saguy
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Ignacio Arganda-Carreras
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Yoav Shechtman
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Arrate Munoz-Barrutia
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Beatriz Serrano-Solano
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Caterina Fuster-Barceló
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Constantin Pape
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Emma Lundberg
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Florian Jug
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Joran Deschamps
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Matthew Hartley
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Mehdi Seifi
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Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa
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Vera Galinova
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Wei Ouyang
,
Guillaume Jacquemet
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Ricardo Henriques
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Estibaliz Gomez de Mariscal
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DOI
Introducing Jeremy Metz: A Multifaceted Research Engineer Joins AICell Lab
We are delighted to welcome Jeremy, a Research Engineer with diverse expertise in computer vision, computational biology, and modelling. His arrival marks an exciting chapter in AICell Lab’s journey towards advancing data-driven life sciences.
Wei Ouyang
Sep 21, 2023
4 min read
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