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I wish something like this existed for organisms you see under the microscope (fungi, bacteria, viruses).
by shock 7y ago
I wish something like this existed for organisms you see under the microscope (fungi, bacteria, viruses).
- contingencies 7y agoI don't see any limitations... try uploading!
- pvaldes 7y agoThere are lots of limitations in fact with the idea of identifying a bacteria or a microbe with a microscope.
- contingencies 7y agoSure, same with images of anything though. There's always metadata. Some categories have extra properties, so you could handle this by documenting the stain in use, magnification, density count, spatial affinity, sample type, etc.
- pvaldes 7y agoI do something similar just for fun, since many years. In my experience lots of just will not care about taking the steps necessary or provide the extra info, they just want easy answers from the blurriest phone photo available. Taxonomy is not simple. Not even for trained people. Doing this with bacteria and virus opens the door to a world of legal problems and medicine trouble. I would advice against.
- contingencies 7y agoTrue, you could disable the ML identification bit. But the value of a browseable taxonomy with social identification features remains.
- pvaldes 7y ago-> lots of [users] just will not
- MattBlissett 7y agoiNaturalist is primarily for wild organisms, but it doesn't matter if they're macroscopic or not. There are some iNaturalist projects specializing in microbes (more than just these two). A project isn't necessary to submit observations, but it can help bring it to the attention of others able to verify your identification. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/microscopic-microbes https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/microscopic-microbes https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cyanoscope https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cyanoscope