# Introduction

Cytomine is an open-source RESTful web platform composed of multiple services encapsulated in Docker containers.

Leveraging Docker power, you can install the whole Cytomine platform on a personal laptop (without collaborative tools), on a virtual machine or a dedicated server in your lab or at large scale, by hosting containers on different machines to increase performance and stability (horizontal scaling).

To interact with Cytomine you can use a regular browser and access the graphical user interface (GUI). As a RESTful application, it is possible to interact using external clients in different languages (Python, Javascript, Java).

# Cytomine Editions

Community Edition

Cytomine Community Edition (CE) is the open-source version of Cytomine. It is a web platform for collaborative analysis of very large bio-medical images and semi-automatic processing of large image collections using machine learning algorithms.

BIGPICTURE Edition

Cytomine BIGPICTURE edition (BP) based on the Cytomine CE extends the open-source software Cytomine with features and modules for the BIGPICTURE project.

# Cytomine Enterprise Edition Teaching Edition (EET)

The current stable version of Cytomine EET. Install this version

# Cytomine Community Edition Legacy

The legacy version of Cytomine (v3) that is still available for installation, but is no longer under active development. Install this version