Scientific papers, published tools and other media from the Bioē project.
A paper describing and validating PlatePrep's image-preparation pipeline is under submission; this section will be updated once it's out.
PlatePrep is the project's first tool published as software with its own DOI, available for any settlement-plate campaign.
Galembeck, E. & Schlosser, C. F. (2026). PlatePrep: browser-based preparation of settlement-plate imagery for annotation platforms (v1.1.2) [Software]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21960482
The concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21959574 always points to the latest version.
The program visited the north coast of São Paulo and featured Bioē's work with the smart buoys — autonomous platforms for maritime signaling and marine environmental monitoring. The segment on the project begins at 6:17. (Brazilian TV program, in Portuguese.)
Watch on YouTubeOpinion piece by Eduardo Galembeck, Bioē's coordinator, on why some experiments only make sense in the ocean itself — and on the institutions that keep the sea open to science, such as CEBIMar (USP, São Sebastião) and the Instituto de Pesca's North Coast Center (Ubatuba). (Brazilian magazine, in Portuguese.)
Read the articleFull scope, history, team and detailed experiments are on the official Bioē site.
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