Beautiful Bioimages for the Eyes of Many Beholders
Vivien Marx · Science · 2002
IMAGING TECHNOLOGYA handful of image-sharing databases and software systems is becoming available, and these images might change the way biologists look at their own and other researchers' data--if several obstacles can be overcome. Aside from the technical difficulties of creating user-friendly databases and interconnected networks of images in the scientific literature, there are pesky legal and ethical questions, such as ownership and credit.