What Scion Is Built From
Scion 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
Scion 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.
Scion is an atlas and 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 Scion is built from.
The broader literature backbone used to assemble and verify the corpus.
Help Improve the Index
Send corrections, missing-public-data leads, confusing labels, or feature requests. The most useful reports include the page or record, what looks wrong, and the source that supports the change.
Acknowledgements
Mary Mirvis, PhD.
Salvador Escobedo