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Metadata matters: access to image data in the real world

2010; Rockefeller University Press; Volume: 189; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1083/jcb.201004104

1540-8140

Melissa Linkert, Curtis Rueden, Chris Allan, Jean‐Marie Burel, William J. Moore, Andrew Patterson, Brian Loranger, Josh Moore, Carlos Neves, Donald MacDonald, Aleksandra Tarkowska, Caitlin Sticco, Emma Hill, Mike Rossner, Kevin W. Eliceiri, Jason R. Swedlow,

Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Data sharing is important in the biological sciences to prevent duplication of effort, to promote scientific integrity, and to facilitate and disseminate scientific discovery. Sharing requires centralized repositories, and submission to and utility of these resources require common data formats. This is particularly challenging for multidimensional microscopy image data, which are acquired from a variety of platforms with a myriad of proprietary file formats (PFFs). In this paper, we describe an open standard format that we have developed for microscopy image data. We call on the community to use open image data standards and to insist that all imaging platforms support these file formats. This will build the foundation for an open image data repository.