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Serial Block Face SEM of HeLa cell pellet with 5 nm pixels and 50 nm slices (benchmark dataset)

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SUBMITTER: Lucy Collinson

PROVIDER: EMPIAR-10106 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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