IDR searcher: a search engine solution for public image resources

TY - JOUR

T1 - IDR searcher

T2 - a search engine solution for public image resources

AU - Mohamed, Khaled

AU - Moore, William

AU - Lindner, Dominik

AU - Moore, Josh

AU - Swedlow, Jason R

AU - Walczysko, Petr

AU - Wong, Frances

AU - Burel, Jean-Marie

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2026. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PY - 2026/7/1

Y1 - 2026/7/1

N2 - Motivation In recent years, public image resources have emerged, but finding quality data efficiently remains a challenge, therefore limiting reuse. Results IDR searcher is an open-source search engine designed to facilitate the exploration of datasets hosted in public bioimaging resources. The application offers a fast, efficient, cost-effective solution for discovering datasets and has the potential to address current disparities in finding quality datasets for exploratory research and can be combined with metadata visualization tools to enhance usability for the scientific community. Availability IDR searcher is deployed using Ansible playbooks and released under the GPL v2 license. The source code associated with this manuscript is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20641515.

AB - Motivation In recent years, public image resources have emerged, but finding quality data efficiently remains a challenge, therefore limiting reuse. Results IDR searcher is an open-source search engine designed to facilitate the exploration of datasets hosted in public bioimaging resources. The application offers a fast, efficient, cost-effective solution for discovering datasets and has the potential to address current disparities in finding quality datasets for exploratory research and can be combined with metadata visualization tools to enhance usability for the scientific community. Availability IDR searcher is deployed using Ansible playbooks and released under the GPL v2 license. The source code associated with this manuscript is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20641515.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105044074204

U2 - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag486

DO - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag486

M3 - Article

SN - 1367-4803

VL - 42

JO - Bioinformatics

JF - Bioinformatics

IS - 7

M1 - btag486

ER -