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Affiliations

• ¹ Divisions of Computational Biology and Gene Regulation and Expression, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. jrswedlow@dundee.ac.uk.
• ² Turku BioImaging, Åbo Akademi University and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
• ³ Euro-BioImaging ERIC, Turku, Finland.
• ⁴ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁵ Monash eResearch Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁶ National Imaging Facility, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁷ Advanced Bioimaging Unit, Institut Pasteur Montevideo and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ⁸ Microscopy Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ⁹ National Center for Health Information Systems (CENS), Center for Medical Informatics and Telemedicine (CIMT), and Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
• ¹⁰ Advanced BioImaging Facility (ABIF), McGill University and Canada BioImaging, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• ¹¹ Laboratorio Nacional de Microscopía Avanzada, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, México.
• ¹² Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Molecular Imaging Center, Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Euro-BioImaging ERIC, Torino, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Torino, Italy.
• ¹⁷ RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan. sonami@riken.jp.