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AI4Life Consortium,

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bioRxiv2026

AI4Life Open Calls and Public Challenges: why, how, and what we have learned.

Within AI4Life, we ran three Open Calls and three Public Challenges (2023-2025), supporting 22 bioimage analysis projects from 151 applications and engaging 225 challenge participants, with the aim of applying FAIR deep learning in the life sciences. Our experience offers a view of the current state of bioimage analysis, the landscape of available tools, as well as the existing gaps between method developers, tool producers and potential users. It highlights that even after careful selection for AI-ready projects, most still require substantial effort to apply deep learning, and that the field still relies heavily on established, well-rounded methods to solve common problems. We come to the conclusion that for scientific AI in biology, the rate-limiting step is not methods and models but data, annotations, and shared infrastructure underneath them.

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bioRxiv2023

DL4MicEverywhere: Deep learning for microscopy made flexible, shareable, and reproducible

Deep learning has revolutionised the analysis of extensive microscopy datasets, yet challenges persist in the widespread adoption of these techniques. Many lack access to training data, computing resources, and expertise to develop complex models. We introduce DL4MicEverywhere, advancing our previous ZeroCostDL4Mic platform, to make deep learning more accessible. DL4MicEverywhere uniquely allows flexible training and deployment across diverse computational environments by encapsulating methods in interactive Jupyter notebooks within Docker containers -a standalone virtualisation of required packages and code to reproduce a computational environment-. This enhances reproducibility and convenience. The platform includes twice as many techniques as originally provided by ZeroCostDL4Mic and enables community contributions via automated build pipelines. DL4MicEverywhere empowers participatory innovation and aims to democratise deep learning for bioimage analysis.

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