About

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

Comparability over abstraction

Scion tries to help you line records up honestly, not flatten the field into fake equivalence.

Provenance over hand-waving

Records point back to the paper and to known public data when it exists.

The paper still wins

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 Corpus

Source Links

BMC Biology scoping review

The review paper that defined the initial corpus and the inclusion logic.

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Cell-Anatomy-Scoping-Review repository

The source extraction and analysis repository Scion is built from.

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Literature corpus query

The broader literature backbone used to assemble and verify the corpus.

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Acknowledgements

Scientific Lead

Mary Mirvis, PhD.

Technical Lead

Salvador Escobedo