CMCB Life Sciences Seminar: Josh Moore, German BioImaging e.V. - Society for Microscopy and Image Analysis, Constance

Host: Cornelia Wetzker (B CUBE)

Title: "Scalable strategies for a next-generation of FAIR bioimaging"

Abstract: For over 20 years, the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) has worked to provide infrastructure for the sharing of bioimaging data. Tools, APIs, and specifications like Bio-Formats, OMERO, and OME-TIFF have allowed the community to grapple with much of the growing size, heterogeneity, acquisition rates, and general complexity of image data published in some 500 articles per day in the life-sciences alone. The rising significance of research data management following, e.g., the Nelson memo in the United States, and changes in storage paradigms like cloud computing, however, have created new demands within the bioimaging community.

In this presentation, the author as a representative of national and international initiatives will present strategies for scaling our cyberinfrastructure to meet the challenges of a FAIR future. This includes chunked, cloud-native formats for sharing terabyte- and petabyte-size datasets and mechanisms for working with microscopy vendors to accurately capture all metadata related to a dataset in community-defined representations. Vital, though, will be the ability of all stakeholders to evolve consensually the infrastructure itself to scale to meet future needs.