GloBIAS Launched!
Global Bioimage Analysts' Society (GloBIAS) officially launched on October 24th, 2024, aiming to promote a sustainable worldwide community of bioimage analysts. We registered the society in Austria. We compared the simplicity of the registration of a society in various countries, and the final choice was Austria. It was also that Gabriel Krens, the head of the imaging facility at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), kindly agreed to host the location of GloBIAS in his institute. We thank Gabriel tremendously for this generous support.
GloBIAS aims to support bioimage analysis experts, including analysts, software developers, and users of bioimage analysis. When we say “bioimage analysis”, it means “quantitative measurement of the parameters of biological systems using image data”. Nowadays, image data is more complex than what we generally perceive as “images” in our daily life. It is a form of data that captures the multidimensional state of biological systems. This means that the analysis of such data is beyond “image analysis” in the traditional sense - it is more about how we untangle that multidimensionality and come to some simpler view, looking at and understanding how biological systems are in operation. The future of this community is filled with many findings we have yet to know, and with excitement to explore the jungle of biological systems.