Dear microscopists,

for those of you not working on zebrafish who might have missed it: A recent publication in the Journal of Cell Biology has combined electron microscopy and clever data management to produce a gigapixel image of a whole zebrafish embryo at 2.5nm resolution, allowing navigation from the whole organism to subcellular structures in Google Maps style.

Image: <http://v.jcb-dataviewer.glencoesoftware.com/webclient/img_detail/201/>
Article: <http://jcb.rupress.org/content/198/3/457.full>

This is so impressive, like a preview of things to come in microscopy, that I thought it's worth drawing your attention to it. Enjoy!

Good imaging,

Martin
PS: the JCB Data Viewer is based on Omero, which we also use and recommend in FILM for image data storage and annotation

Martin Spitaler, PhD

FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy
- Facility Manager -
Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401
Imperial College London / South Kensington
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
UK

Tel. +44-(0)20-759-42023
E-mail m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk
Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility