Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analysis

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.07005
• Publication Date: 2023-01-01
• Authors: Christopher Schmied; Michael S. Nelson; Sergiy Avilov; Gert‐Jan Bakker; Cristina Bertocchi; Johanna Bischof; Ulrike Boehm; Jan Brocher; Mariana Lombardi ...; Catalin Chiritescu; Jana Christopher; Beth A. Cimini; Eduardo Conde‐Sousa; Michael Ebner; Rupert Ecker; Kevin W. Eliceiri; Julia Fernández-R...; Nathalie Gaudreault; Laurent Gelman; David Grünwald; Tingting Gu; Nadia Halidi; Mathias Hammer; Matthew Hartley; Marie Held; Florian Jug; Varun Kapoor; Ayse Aslihan Koksoy; Judith Lacoste; Sylvia E. Le Dévédec; Sylvie Le Guyader; Penghuan Liu; Gabriel G. Martins; Aastha Mathur; Kota Miura; Paula Montero Llopis; Roland Nitschke; Alison J. North; Adam C. Parslow; Alex L. Payne-Dwyer; Laure Plantard; Rizwan Ali; Britta Schroth‐Diez; Lucas Schütz; Ryan T. Scott; Arne Seitz; Olaf Selchow; Ved P. Sharma; Martin Spitaler; Sathya Srinivasan; Caterina Strambio...; Douglas J. Taatjes; Christian Tischer; Helena Jambor
• Keywords: Publication; Disk formatting; CLARITY

Images document scientific discoveries and are prevalent in modern biomedical research. Microscopy imaging particular is currently undergoing rapid technological advancements. However for scientists wishing to publish the obtained images image analyses results, there date no unified guidelines. Consequently, microscopy data publications may be unclear or difficult interpret. Here we present community-developed checklists preparing light analysis publications. These offer authors, readers, publishers key recommendations formatting annotation, color selection, availability, reporting workflows. The goal of our guidelines increase clarity reproducibility figures thereby heighten quality