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Did You Know That?

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That an online book, Microscopy for Beginners, is available online is several languages?

From the book's home page: This book is a companion website to our paper “A biologist’s guide to planning and performing quantitative bioimaging experiments”. Our goal is to provide recommendations and a curated set of resources for biologists looking to understand the factors that impact their fluorescence microscopy experiments.

This book is a collaborative effort from experts in biology, imaging, image analysis, and data management, interpretation, and presentation. Our tips and recommendations come from real experiences training and working with biologists who are beginners to bioimaging and bioimage analysis. When starting out in a new field, you often don’t know what you don’t know. Here we provide context, tips for avoiding common beginner errors, and a focused list of high-quality, open source resources (full list available here).

The book is available in English, Spanish, Czech, and Portuguese.