When the same cell-based assay runs again and again, and more than one person needs to run it, check it or share it. That is where CellProfiler and ImageJ tend to depend on one expert, and where Cytely is built to help.
When the same cell-based assay runs again and again, and more than one person needs to run it, check it or share it. CellProfiler and ImageJ/Fiji are free, open-source tools that work well for one-off projects, method development, and cases where analysis has to stay on your own hardware. They tend to become a bottleneck when the analysis depends on the one person who built the pipeline or wrote the macro.
Cytely is a good alternative if you want to:
- Let anyone on the team build and run an analysis, without pipeline or scripting expertise
- Get the same result on every batch, whoever runs it
- Check any population against the cells behind it
- Share the full analysis with colleagues, not only exported tables
Cytely does this with ready assays, an AI workflow builder and a visual no-code builder, gating linked to every cell, and a shared cloud workspace. If your assay needs something new, we build a custom workflow for you at no cost.
For the full comparisons, see CellProfiler alternative, ImageJ and Fiji alternative, or the side-by-side comparison table.