Statistics on collaborative projects comparing a local core facility (the Image Analysis Hub (IAH) of the Institut Pasteur) and F-BIAS.

For the IAH data, we used the project management system deployed there (PPMS, Stratocore). These statistics are built on data from collaborative projects for local users and excludes other activities (consultations, maintaining computers and commercial software, administrative work, development projects, and meetings). To calculate the number of projects per analyst per year, we counted the active projects in 2024, including both ongoing and completed projects. We then determined the number of projects per analyst, weighted by the fraction of time each analyst dedicates to the IAH. The project effort and duration were measured for projects completed after 2022, from the number of hours billed to users. Duration was calculated as the time from project start to closure. For the F-BIAS column, we use the data from Table 2, using the billed time for the effort, and the actual duration of the 3 projects we completed. Two analysts dedicated 50% of their time to collaborative projects in 2024, which gives a number of projects per analyst of 8 with the 8 projects we worked on this year.