What the Cell Anatomy Corpus Is Built From
The Cell Anatomy Corpus is a structured interface over a manually curated whole-cell imaging corpus. It is meant to make the literature easier to search, compare, and benchmark without pretending the underlying studies are more uniform than they are.
Project Stance
The corpus tries to help you line records up honestly, not flatten the field into fake equivalence.
Records point back to the paper and to known public data when it exists.
This atlas is a comparison layer, not a replacement for reading the source publication when a decision matters.
Current Scope
The current metadata MVP indexes dataset-level records derived from the scoping review corpus. It is strongest at discovery, comparison, field-level analytics, and plan benchmarking.
It is not yet a full public-data mirror, image viewer, or curation workflow system.
Open the CorpusSource Links
The review paper that defined the initial corpus and the inclusion logic.
The source extraction and analysis repository behind the Cell Anatomy Corpus.
The broader literature backbone used to assemble and verify the corpus.
If You Use This Platform or Corpus
Please cite the underlying scoping study that defined the starting corpus and inclusion logic.
Mirvis, M., Weingard, B., Goodman, S. et al. A scoping study of the whole-cell imaging literature as a foundation for the emerging field of cell anatomy. BMC Biol (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02556-0
Acknowledgements
Mary Mirvis, PhD.
Salvador Escobedo
Mary Mirvis: mariya.mirvis@ucsf.edu / mirvis.mary@gmail.com / mary.mirv.is
Salvador Escobedo: svdrecbd@gmail.com
Scientific work for the corpus is tied to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF and the Laboratory of Cell Geometry, directed by Wallace F. Marshall.
The underlying work was supported by the UCSF Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research.
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