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Dataset for Absorbance Microscopy for Quantitative and Traceable Trypan Blue Cell Viability Measurement

Metadata Updated: July 29, 2022

The use of the microscope to assess cell viability is an inherently qualitative and subjective process. This project demonstrates a new absorbance microscopy modality for quantitative single-cell assessment of cell viability via trypan blue staining. This dataset consists of .tif images of live and dead stained and unstained Jurkat cells as well as the numerical data related to the corresponding journal article. The images were collected via brightfield microscopy through a 610nm bandpass filter. The data were collected to demonstrate a new imaging modality that enables the collection of traceable and comparable images of cells over time on the same microscope or on different microscopes. The processing of the brightfield images into absorbance images allows the intracellular uptake of trypan blue measured as moles/cell or mmol/L to be determined for individual cells. In this way, measurements of cell viability can be made in a quantitative, reproducible fashion. Quantitative measurements of cell viability are greatly needed to improve consistency in the biomanufacturing of cells and cell-based therapeutics. Note about Downloading: Please note that the pathlength for the download location must not exceed 260 characters; this is the pathlength limit in Windows. If you experience an error message about pathlength, then you can create a shorter pathlength for the download. For example, you could create a folder on C drive named 000 (triple zero) which would sort to the top of the list and would be C:\000 (6 characters). REFERENCE 1. Babakhanova G, Zimmerman SM, Pierce LT, Sarkar S, Schaub NJ, Simon Jr CG (2021) Quantitative, Traceable Determination of Cell Viability Using Absorbance Microscopy. Manuscript in preparation. 2. Babakhanova G, Zimmerman SM, Simon Jr CG (2021), Dataset for AbsorbanceQ App for Generating Absorbance Images from Brightfield Image Captures, National Institute of Standards and Technology, https://doi.org/10.18434/mds2-2423 (accessed June 22, 2021) 3. Zimmerman SM, Simon Jr CG, Babakhanova G (2021) AbsorbanceQ App for Generating Absorbance Images from Brightfield Image Captures. Manuscript in preparation.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Metadata Created Date June 28, 2021
Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2022
Data Update Frequency irregular

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Harvested from NIST

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 28, 2021
Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2022
Publisher National Institute of Standards and Technology
Maintainer
Identifier ark:/88434/mds2-2347
Data First Published 2021-06-15
Language en
Data Last Modified 2021-01-07 00:00:00
Category Bioscience, Bioscience:Cell biology, Bioscience:Biomaterials, Manufacturing:Biomanufacturing, Health:Cell therapies
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 006:55
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 61a42535-959f-480b-9f13-a2c4cb1b84d6
Harvest Source Id 74e175d9-66b3-4323-ac98-e2a90eeb93c0
Harvest Source Title NIST
Homepage URL https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-2347
License https://www.nist.gov/open/license
Program Code 006:045
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash af8c7d6f0638a7a8f72dcb4b68468663bc7fe0d5
Source Schema Version 1.1

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