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.

ULiège Edition

Cytomine ULiège edition (UL) based on the Cytomine CE extends the open-source software Cytomine with experimental features and modules driven by our research projects and collaborations but that are not yet fully validated.

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 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