organized annual meetings on bioimage informatics since 2005. The ISMB conference has had a Bioimaging & Data Visualization track since 2010. The journal Bioinformatics also introduced a Bioimage Informatics track in 2012. The OpenAccess journal BMC Bioinformatics has a section devoted to bioimage analysis, visualization and related applications. Other computational biology and bioinformatics journals also regularly publish bioimage informatics work. A European Union Cost action called NEUBIAS (network of european bioimage analysts) has been organizing annual conferences as well as bioimage analyst training schools and taggathons since 2017. Software There are several packages that make bioimage informatics methods available through a graphical user interface such as ImageJ, FIJI, CellProfiler, chunkflow or Icy. Visualization and analysis platforms such as Vaa3D have appeared in recent years and have been used in both large scale projects especially for neuroscience and desktop applications. Other researchers develop their own methods, typically based on a programming language with good computer vision support such as Python, C++, or MATLAB. The Mahotas library for Python is one popular example. Although, examples of researcher developed methods in programming languages with less computer vision support as R exist (e.g. trackdem ). See also Focus stacking The technique of combining multiple images with difference focus distances into one. High-content screening digital pathology Medical imaging External links Vaa3D: High-performance multi-dimensional image visualization and analysis Bioformats The Image file IO engine that supports dozens of formats References Bioinformatics