A call for public archives for biological image data

Jan Ellenberg; Jason R Swedlow; Mary Barlow; Charles E Cook; Ugis Sarkans; Ardan Patwardhan; Alvis Brazma; Ewan Birney

doi:10.1038/s41592-018-0195-8

A call for public archives for biological image data

Nat Methods. 2018 Nov;15(11):849-854. doi: 10.1038/s41592-018-0195-8.

Authors

Jan Ellenberg¹, Jason R Swedlow², Mary Barlow³, Charles E Cook³, Ugis Sarkans³, Ardan Patwardhan³, Alvis Brazma⁴, Ewan Birney⁵

Affiliations

¹ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. jan.ellenberg@embl.de.
² Division of Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. jrswedlow@dundee.ac.uk.
³ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK. brazma@ebi.ac.uk.
⁵ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK. birney@ebi.ac.uk.

Abstract

Public data archives are the backbone of modern biological research. Biomolecular archives are well established, but bioimaging resources lag behind them. The technology required for imaging archives is now available, thus enabling the creation of the first public bioimage datasets. We present the rationale for the construction of bioimage archives and their associated databases to underpin the next revolution in bioinformatics discovery.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Archives
Databases as Topic*
Diagnostic Imaging / methods*
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Information Dissemination / methods*
Information Storage and Retrieval / standards*
Public Sector*

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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