F-BIAS

F-BIAS presentation

F-BIAS is a professional network that brings together bioimage analysts across France. Hosted within France-BioImaging core facilities, its mission is to support researchers with high-quality expertise in image processing and analysis. Created in 2021, the network provides analysts with a strong community where they can share technical and methodological knowledge, and collaborate on innovative solutions.

F-BIAS offers two services to France-BioImaging members:

1. Open Desk Sessions

(held every two months – link to the webpage here)

During a one-hour session, several image-analysis experts provide confidential support to users on a specific analysis project.
Before the session, users are invited to send representative datasets to the experts, allowing them to demonstrate, on live, tools and approaches that may help solve the submitted problem.

Users are requested to acknowledge FBIAS in any resulting publication: “We acknowledge FBIAS, member of the national infrastructure France-BioImaging supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR-24-INBS-0005 FBI BIOGEN).”

2. Collaborative Projects

When a one-hour Open Desk session is not sufficient to fully address a project, particularly when a tailored workflow must be developed, we offer collaborative projects. These projects involve dedicated support from an FBIAS engineer. They are billed at a subsidized rate of €60/hour, thanks to the support of France-BioImaging. A specification document is defined with the user, and the collaboration is conducted remotely, with regular online meetings.

To submit a project, you can write to us at FBIAS@france-bioimaging.org or apply through the Euro-BioImaging access portal: https://www.eurobioimaging-access.eu

F-BIAS members

The members of F-BIAS (around twenty in 2025) are bioimage analysts working in France-BioImaging facilities across the country. Their main mission within their local structure is to provide image-analysis support to the scientific community.

The group brings together members with highly diverse backgrounds (applied mathematics, biology, computer science, physics), application domains (cell biology, developmental biology, histopathology, microbiology, plant biology, etc.), areas of expertise, and levels of experience in the field. This diversity is one of the group’s major strengths, fostering a collaborative environment in which members continuously learn from one another.

Here is their distribution across France:

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