Imageomics Institute

The Imageomics Institute is funded by the US National Science Foundation's Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Institute program under Award #2118240 (Imageomics: A New Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning). It started in Oct 2021. History The inception and research of the Imageomics Institute builds heavily on the "Biology-Guided Neural Networks for Discovering Phenotypic Traits" (BGNN) project, also funded by the US National Science Foundation. BGNN itself built in part on the Phenoscape project (funded by NSF multiple times), which started in 2007 and was incubated at the NSF-funded National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). You can find a full mission, vision, and abstract under the Imageomics website's About page. In short, the vision of the Institute is to "establish a new scientific field called imageomics that harnesses revolutions in data science and computing, as well as the rapidly expanding collections of biological image data, in order to accelerate biological understanding of phenotypic traits extracted from images of organisms."