Supporting Tools and Websites

Metadata

Metadata extraction software:

• Micro-Meta App: an interactive tool for collecting microscopy metadata based on community specifications Documentation and download here

• MethodsJ2: a software tool to capture metadata and generate comprehensive microscopy methods text Documentation and download here

• MDEmic: a metadata annotation tool to facilitate management of FAIR image data in the bioimaging community

Data Analysis

Due to changes in our underlying infrastructure and the evolving security landscape, we’ve had to make the difficult decision to sunset Bia-binder. We’d suggest https://mybinder.org/ as an alternative for hosting your notebooks and we’ve worked on making a wide range of BIA data available as OME-Zarr to enable any cloud-based computing environments to access them easily.

Organisations

EuroBioimaging

QUAREP-LiMi: Quality Assessment and Reproducibility for Instruments & Images in Light Microscopy

Global BioImaging

In the future, capabilities will be available to connect other added-value resources that aim to enhance the scientific value of the archived images through curation, integrative analysis and the development of new analytical methods. Please write to bioimage-archive@ebi.ac.uk to discuss your ideas or subscribe to the mailing list.