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metadata
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
  - image-classification
tags:
  - biology
  - drug
  - cells
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: image
      dtype:
        array3_d:
          dtype: uint8
          shape:
            - 512
            - 512
            - 6
    - name: site_id
      dtype: string
    - name: well_id
      dtype: string
    - name: cell_type
      dtype: string
    - name: experiment
      dtype: string
    - name: plate
      dtype: int32
    - name: well
      dtype: string
    - name: site
      dtype: int32
    - name: well_type
      dtype:
        class_label:
          names:
            '0': treatment
            '1': positive_control
            '2': negative_control
    - name: sirna
      dtype: string
    - name: sirna_id
      dtype: int32
    - name: embeddings
      sequence: float32
      length: 128
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 213139738276
      num_examples: 81224
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 116210798412
      num_examples: 44286
  dataset_size: 329350536688
paperswithcode_id: rxrx1

RxRx1: A Dataset for Evaluating Experimental Batch Correction Methods

Dataset Description

Description

High-throughput screening techniques are commonly used to obtain large quantities of data in many fields of biology. It is well known that artifacts arising from variability in the technical execution of different experimental batches within such screens confound these observations and can lead to invalid biological conclusions. It is therefore necessary to account for these batch effects when analyzing outcomes. In this paper we describe RxRx1, a biological dataset designed specifically for the systematic study of batch effect correction methods. The dataset consists of 125,510 high-resolution fluorescence microscopy images of human cells under 1,138 genetic perturbations in 51 experimental batches across 4 cell types. Visual inspection of the images alone clearly demonstrates significant batch effects. We propose a classification task designed to evaluate the effectiveness of experimental batch correction methods on these images and examine the performance of a number of correction methods on this task. Our goal in releasing RxRx1 is to encourage the development of effective experimental batch correction methods that generalize well to unseen experimental batches.

Citation

@misc{sypetkowski2023rxrx1,
  title         = {RxRx1: A Dataset for Evaluating Experimental Batch Correction Methods},
  author        = {Maciej Sypetkowski and Morteza Rezanejad and Saber Saberian and Oren Kraus and John Urbanik and James Taylor and Ben Mabey and Mason Victors and Jason Yosinski and Alborz Rezazadeh Sereshkeh and Imran Haque and Berton Earnshaw},
  year          = {2023},
  eprint        = {2301.05768},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass  = {cs.CV}
}