Aignostics Launches Dedicated Initiative for the Academic Research Community

We’re excited to announce Atlas for Academics, a new initiative that includes our first dedicated offerings for academic researchers. Atlas for Academics consists of two programs built around Atlas H&E-TME, our AI-powered application for spatial tumor microenvironment (TME) analysis: OpenTME and the Research Access Program.

OpenTME is an open-access dataset of thousands of TCGA whole-slide images fully analyzed with Atlas H&E-TME. Pre-computed morphological features are derived from Atlas H&E-TME's four-stage analysis pipeline – tissue quality control, tissue segmentation, cell detection and classification, and neighborhood analysis – and can be correlated directly with TCGA's genomic, transcriptomic, and clinical data to support multimodal analyses that go well beyond standard TME metrics. Access is also provided to TME Studio, a suite of Marimo notebooks designed to help researchers get started quickly. The notebooks provide tutorials on the data structure and basic analyses to serve as a starting point for deeper exploration. The dataset is now available on HuggingFace and will expand as Atlas H&E-TME coverage grows to additional cancer types.

The Research Access Program gives academic researchers the opportunity to run their own H&E slide cohorts through Atlas H&E-TME at no cost. Accepted projects receive quantitative readouts at the cell, tissue, and neighborhood level, polygon overlays viewable in our pathology viewer, and dedicated support from the Aignostics team throughout the analysis. Researchers can apply via a short application.

For many academic researchers, this kind of spatial TME analysis has not always been easy to access, whether due to the cost of traditional approaches or the complexity of computing TME morphological features at scale. We hope Atlas for Academics helps change that, and we're excited to see how the research community uses these tools to deepen their understanding of the TME.