Announcement of the BioImage Archive

[Jason Swedlow-2]

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Dear All-


On 2 July 2019, EMBL-EBI announced its launch of the BioImage Archive (press
release
<https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/press-releases/bioimage-archive-launch>).
The Image Data Resource project has worked with EMBL-EBI since its launch
in 2015 to demonstrate the feasibility and utility of public bioimage data
resources and is an active component of this new initiative. The Image Data
Resource project has recently released two new domain-branded resources,
Cell-IDR (https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/cell) and Tissue-IDR (
https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/tissue), that integrate specific datasets
and improve user experience and hopefully re-use of the data they hold.



Using funding from the UK Research and Innovation Strategic Priorities
Fund, EMBL-EBI is building IT infrastructure to support the BioImage
Archive, including a scalable storage architecture (object store), from
which Cell-IDR and Tissue-IDR will benefit. These resources are growing too
rapidly to be supported by their current storage (NFS) file systems and
will therefore be leveraging the BioImage Archive’s object store in the
future. As the changes only involve the back-end of the IDRs, they will not
affect submission or access to published data. The web-based user
interfaces of Cell-IDR and Tissue-IDR will appear unchanged. In the
longer-term, we aim to connect the IDRs and the BioImaging Archive so that
data can flow seamlessly between these complementary resources. For more
information on how these types of resources can work together see Ellenberg
et al, Nature Methods, 2018 (PDF,
*https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-018-0195-8
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-018-0195-8>*).



As the BioImage Archive is being built up over the next few years, users
and depositors will experience additional benefits. For instance,
integration of the archiving of light-microscopy data and EM data will
enable transparent deposition and retrieval of data for correlative imaging
modalities such as CLEM and CLXM. It will also enable linking and
integration of diverse bioimaging datasets from a variety of modalities and
on a range of biological scales.



We look forward to working with the community to make all these resources
useful and and in the long-term essential for the community.



Cheers,



Jason



Cell-IDR: *https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/cell
<https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/cell>*

Tissue-IDR: *https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/tissue
<https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/tissue>*

BioImage Archive: *https://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive/
<https://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive/>*



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