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Abstract
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 multi-dimensional 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.
© 2010 Linkert et al. This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 777-782 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Cell Biology |
Volume | 189 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 May 2010 |
Keywords
- QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS
- INFORMATICS
- REVEALS
- GENOME
- TOOLS
- MODEL
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Aref#d: 21060. The Open Microscopy Environment: Towards the Development of a Scientific Data Management System
Swedlow, J. (Investigator)
1/10/08 → 31/03/13
Project: Research