The basis for this work are series of digital images provided by our laboratory. These images represent cells marked by fluorescences. Every image represents a separate aspect of these cells. By means of overlay of these images you can get combined information about the arrangement of many proteins in the cells. The task is to generate stacks of images automaticly, allow selection of interesting regions and couple this tool with existing tools. Thus you can get a simple didactic principle to display komplex cell information. This solution is not only interesting for biology and medicine but also for diagnostics. The task is resolvable in provided time by the help of a computer scientist (Dipl. Ing. M. Bode) and a biologist (Dr. U. Setzer) of ours. A basis was establishe by two interested students who have knowledge in the programming language we want to use. The task can be resolved by two students because you can split it in two main tasks. The fist part is a connection to a database which contains the images and the second one is the visualization of the images by the described steps. This tool cannot only be developed in our labor but also at another workstation with support by our team.
January 1999, W. Schubert