The BioImage Archive’s Scope

The BioImage Archive’s scope is bioimaging data at scales from molecules to organisms. It accepts data from any imaging modality including light microscopy, optical projection tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound imaging, super-resolution microscopy, photoacoustic imaging, light-field microscopy, Brillouin microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and others.

Medical datasets that are linked to an identifiable individual and/or have a primary use in medical treatment are not in scope. Human cell lines and tissue arrays are in scope if they are not linked to an individual and do not have phenotypic data allowing for identification. Patient associated medical imaging data cannot currently be deposited into any resource at EBI.

As part of its remit, the BioImage Archive works with added-value bioimaging data resources, providing storage infrastructure, data links between archives and shared deposition systems. Three EBI resources, EMPIAR, BioStudies and the BioImage Archive work together to provide domain specific expertise in data curation and presentation.

The following subsection provides information about image data submission policy for the BIA.