On Jul. 10, 2020, the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, together with industry and non-profit partners, annunced they had launched a new collaboration to create a massive cell-imaging dataset, displaying more than 1 billion cells responding to over 140,000 small molecules and genetic perturbations.

This microscopy image dataset, which would represent the largest collection of cell images generated by Cell Painting, is planned as a reference collection to potentially fuel efforts for discovering and developing new therapeutics.