Organise your data

Now, organise your data for submission. Please include every detail needed to reproduce your results. This might be raw data, intermediate results, or processed data like composite images or segmentation masks etc. 

Please note that some special characters are not allowed in directory and file names. Stick to the allowed characters listed here to avoid any problems with your submission.

For any program code accompanying your study, it is best to upload that code to a specialised repository (e.g. GitHub or Gitlab), and then add a link to it in your submission, which you will be able to do during the submission process.

The BioImage Archive implemented  Recommended Metadata for Biological Images (REMBI) metadata guidelines to further support FAIR sharing. You will need to provide REMBI level metadata of your study at the final step of the submission process, using the BIA web submission tool. REMBI guidelines are also useful to plan on what to include and how to organise your data. Please check the next sections for a more detailed overview of REMBI metadata and how to organise your submission into REMBI Study Components.

We have also implemented the Metadata, Incentives, Formats, and Accessibility (MIFA) metadata guidelines for the annotation files like segmentation masks, point annotations etc. These will also need to be provided in the submission process and as part of the file list, as explained in the next sections.