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  <h1>
    Getting Started
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  <p>
    <span style="font-weight:bold">CellProfiler</span> is free,
    open-source software for quantitative analysis of biological images.
    No prior experience in programming or computer vision is required
    &ndash; this page is intended to help you get up and running. If you
    find these tools helpful, please remember to <a href=
    "citations.html">cite our work</a> to help keep the project funded.
  </p>

  <h2>
    Manuals
  </h2>

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        CellProfiler
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href=
        "http://cellprofiler.orghttp://d1zymp9ayga15t.cloudfront.net/content/Documentation/cp2.1.0_manual_0c7fb94.pdf">
        2.1</a>
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href=
        "http://d1zymp9ayga15t.cloudfront.net/content/Documentation/cp2_manual_9978.pdf">
        2.0</a>
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      <td>
        <a href=
        "http://d1zymp9ayga15t.cloudfront.net/content/Documentation/cp1_manual_9717.pdf">
        1.0</a>
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        CellProfiler Analyst&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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      </td>
      <td>
        <a href=
        "http://d1zymp9ayga15t.cloudfront.net/content/Documentation/cpa2_manual.pdf">
        2.0</a>
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href=
        "http://d1zymp9ayga15t.cloudfront.net/content/Documentation/cpa1_manual.pdf">
        1.0</a>
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  <h2>
    Tutorials
  </h2>

  <p>
    Get started quickly using one of our <a href=
    "tutorials.html">tutorials</a> introducing you to the features of
    CellProfiler and demonstrating how to set up your first pipeline.
    Once you understand the basics, our advanced tutorials will help you
    learn to optimize settings.<br />
  </p>

  <h2>
    Examples
  </h2>

  <p>
    Download an <a href="examples.html">example</a> pipeline that you can
    load in CellProfiler to see how it works. The examples page also has
    a guide to choosing the right example pipeline to modify for your
    images. For CellProfiler Analyst, download an example data set and
    configuration file so you can become familiar with the data
    exploration and machine-learning tools.<br />
  </p>

  <h2>
    Frequently Asked Questions
  </h2>

  <p>
    Find answers to <a href="faq.html">frequently asked questions</a>
    about CellProfiler.<br />
  </p>

  <h2>
    Online Forum
  </h2>

  <p>
    Still have questions? Post your problem in our <a href=
    "http://cellprofiler.org/forum">forum</a> to get an answer from our
    image assay developer team or from the larger CellProfiler
    community.<br />
  </p>

  <p>
    <strong>Still stuck?</strong> The Broad Institute Imaging Platform is
    available for non-profit consulting on challenging image analysis and
    data mining projects. Learn more and contact us via the Carpenter lab
    <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/~anne/">website</a> to explore
    a collaboration.
  </p>