IDR – Image Data Resource

Image data resource – Lecture

Trainer: Jason Swedlow

Overview: IDR links data from several imaging modalities, including high-content screening, multi-dimensional microscopy and digital pathology, with public genetic or chemical databases and cell and tissue phenotypes expressed using controlled ontologies. Using this integration, IDR facilitates the analysis of gene networks and reveals functional interactions that are inaccessible to individual studies. To enable reanalysis, we also established a computational resource based on Jupyter notebooks that allows remote access to the entire IDR. IDR is also an open-source platform for publishing imaging data. Thus IDR provides an online resource and a software infrastructure that promotes and extends publication and reanalysis of scientific image data. (Segment from the abstract at Nature methods)

Learning outcomes

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  • List IDRs benefits and services
  • Identify the importance of FAIR principles in bioimaging data

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Image data resource – Lecture

Trainer: Frances Wong

Overview: The Image Data Resource (IDR) is a public repository of image datasets from published scientific studies, where the community can submit, search and access high quality bio-image data.  The lecture will focus on data submission and curation in IDR.  This will include the IDR submission workflow, IDR submission process, how to fill in IDR metadata templates and metadata curation in IDR.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  • Find more information about IDR
  • Submit data to IDR

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Image data resource – Practical

Trainer: Jean Marie Burel

Overview: In this section you will explore the web-based graphical interface of IDR showing the browsing and data and metadata layout and searches inside IDR. This section will also demonstrate how to connect imaging software packages to analyse images and metadata hosted in IDR using OMERO APIs.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  • Browse through IDR’s web-based interface to locate data and metadata
  • Practice basic connections to IDR to some software packages for bioimage analysis through OMERO’s APIs

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