Looking at the filter results, there is plenty of information there to process.

As I understand it, the samples are stained using different compounds. Some of these cause the image to be very dark. However, we must assume that doing this highlights features of interest to the scientists.

Of course, it is possible that some of the images will be too dark, or contain no useful information. But it's not a judgement we are in a position to make.

In this case, if you looked at the raw image, and perhaps adjusted the contrast, you would see all sorts of fine detail. The filters can detect this detail, as you can see in the filter result windows. However, the scaled down main image does lose a lot of detail - but that's only there to show us an overview.

If it really was because of staining, I'd agree. However, the complete lack of variance in the black makes me think that it's not a problem with contrast, but rather a one with the image display. The edges to me atleast would seem to support that idea, as they appear in a similar shade of grey-white as the properly showing slides. (Ie. the edges show up just fine, but some problem in the rendering makes it show the rest as "blank", which in this case is interpreted as black) Additionally, atleast 2 separate workunits I've gotten have had the same problem, which increases the odds of something being off with the client.



At the moment my client is processing a WU from Proteome Folding Phase 2, but I set my project preferences to accept only HDC work to speed up getting another WU to test this on. I'll get back to you once this happens.

If you insist. Here's an idea: since apparently some other people have wondered about this before, could this be added to some relevant FAQ? I did some preliminary browsing here before I created this thread but couldn't really find anything that was pertinent.