NFDI4BIOIMAGE
NFDI4BIOIMAGE is a consortium of the National Research Data Infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI) in Germany. Our focus is on all steps of the research data life cycle for microscopy and bioimage analysis. NFDI4BIOIMAGE applied as a consortium in the third call for applications (2021) and has started as an NFDI consortium in March 2023.NFDI4BIOIMAGE will strive to provide scientists from all natural science and biomedical research fields with workable and trusted solutions to handle the ever-increasing amount of bioimage data from the various (light) microscopy techniques and related biophotonic technologies. Bioimaging data should thus be in accordance with the FAIR principles, i.e., be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-Usable. Increasing data accessibility and re-usability will advance bioimage informatics, the scientific discipline devoted to quantitative analysis and software-aided knowledge extraction from bioimage data.
Objectives
To achieve the aims, NFDI4BIOIMAGE will realize the following objectives:
• Standardization: data acquisition, metadata, file formats, (meta)data models, ontologies, annotation tools, data provenance
• Storage concepts and open repositories: access and submission requirements, capacity, long-term vs. short-term, distributed vs. centralized, data flows
• Data integration: combination with -omics data and other discipline-specific data types, integrative dataset queries, interoperability, interfaces
• Bioimage informatics tool development: bioimage analysis, automated AI-based bioimage analysis pipelines, workflow management and reproducibility, interoperability of analysis tools, statistics, and modeling
• Education: training, workshops, online tools, open educational formats
• Networking: international harmonization, knowledge exchange, connection to other NFDI consortia and non-NFDI RDM-initiativesServices planned
NFDI4BIOIMAGE aims to set up a web portal to aggregate and distribute information, knowledge, and tools for bioimage data management. Items include (not exhaustive):
• Easy to navigate overview about bioimage data management, and related links and tools
• Collaborative work-space for the participants
• State-of-the-art guidelines and tools for image data annotation
• Guidelines and templates for data management plans and electronic lab notebook use
• Guidelines for submitting datasets to trusted repositories/archives, including a collection thereof
• Downloadable and cloud-based software tools and instructions for performing data management tasks
Where necessary, data management facilitators will support the deployment of the developed tools. These are specialists hired and commissioned by the NFDI4BIOIMAGE to deliver project-based support or train local data stewards and scientists involved in bioimage data management.
Projektpartner
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- German BioImaging-Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V.
- Universität Konstanz
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
- Europäisches Laboratorium für Molekularbiologie (EMBL)
- Universität Osnabrück
- Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie
- Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Foischung und Infektionsbiologie e. V.
- Technische Universität Dresden
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Projektlaufzeit
01.03.2023-29.02.2028
Projektförderer