#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - Z as in Zenodo For us as a consortium committed to helping others make their data #FAIR, Zenodo is a useful platform where we make presentations, training materials, posters, and papers publicly available for everyone. Find our materials here: 👉 zenodo.org/communities/...

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - Y as in YAML If your research involves lots of files and metadata, YAML can help you structure everything clearly and transparently. This text-based format can be used to describe image metadata and analysis parameters in a human-readable and machine-processable way.

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - X as in XML. Encouraging the use of standards like XML is important to @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social, as it guarantees interoperability between softwares and labs. More about the specific file format OME-XML for biological image data: 👉 docs.openmicroscopy.org/ome-model/5....

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - W as in Workflow If your research involves working with large amounts of data, it is important to plan your data workflow beforehand. A planned #workflow makes your data easy to process and reproduce, from the first image to publication.

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - U as in Usability. Usability is closely linked to the #FAIR data principles that we at @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social strive for. To improve the usability of your data, you need to document it well, add metadata and store data in common, non-proprietary formats.

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - T as in TIFF When working with microscopy data, you often need image formats that preserve every detail of your measurements. #TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a raster image format particularly suited for high-quality, multidimensional microscopy data.

#NFDI4BioImageFromAtoZ - S for semantic annotation Would you like to create #FAIR bioimage data with your research? Then, you can’t ignore semantic annotation: Data only becomes reusable, interoperable, and thus FAIR, through standardized annotation using shared vocabularies and ontologies.

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - R as in REMBI. REMBI was developed by the light, electron, and X-ray microscopy communities to increase the likelihood that image data will be reused by their own reserachers, but also by other users of archived image material. Read more: 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - Q as in QUAREP-LiMi. Quarep-LiMi is one of @NFDI4BIOIMAGE's partners with whom we exchange regularly and work together to develop internationally coordinated standards and processes for quality controll and assessment. Have a look at the initiative: 👉 quarep.org

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - P as in Pixels. In biological microscopy, #pixels are more than just image dots – they are quantitative measurements that encode spatial and intensity information at the core of high-dimensional bioimaging data.

#NFDBIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - O for OMERO. What do @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and the @openmicroscopy.org have in common? Both aim to improve the management, documentation, and sharing of bioimage data. 👉 Find out more about #OMERO: www.openmicroscopy.org/omero/

#NFD4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - N as in NFDI Since 2020, @nfdi.de has been working with 26 consortia and Base4NFDI toward its vision of “data as a common good for excellent research, organized by the scientific community in Germany.” In 2023 @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social joined the NFDI. 👉 www.nfdi.de?lang=en

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - M as in Metadata Standards. Standards developed by the bioimaging community emphasize that metadata should contain information relevant to microscopists, computer vision researchers, and imaging scientists - e.g. the imaging method. 👉 gerbi-gmb.de/2024/12/05/m...

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - L as in License. An important aspect of making your research data #FAIR is to make it #reusable. We at @NFDI4BIOIMAGE encourage you to make your data publicly available under an appropriate license to increase its potential for reuse.

#NFD4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - K for Knowledge Graph @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social has its own #knowledgegraph (#N4BIKG) since July. It contains information about the consortium, services, and research artifacts deposited in #Zenodo. 👉 More information: mpievolbio-scicomp.pages.gwdg.de/blog/post/20...

#NFD4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - J for Jupyter. Jupyter Notebooks are interactive documents that allow you to document and execute code, data, images, and entire workflows together. They are used both @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and @nfdi.de: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.github.io/training/rea... 👉 nfdi-jupyter.de

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - I for Interoperability Interoperability is the most important prerequisite for standardizing biological image data. Therefore, @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social creates standards, interoperable formats, and a common foundation for the description and exchange of bioimage data.

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - H as in Help Desk. If you have questions about metadata annotations, suitable repositories, and other topics related to image analysis and software integration, then the Help Desk is your starting point. You can contact the Help Desk here: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/help-desk/

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - G as in Galaxy. The platform Galaxy is designed for data-intensive scientific analysis and provides access to virtual workstations for analysing, visualising and training bioimage data, in order to create and manage reproducible image analysis workflows. 👉 galaxyproject.org

The NFDI BioMed IG met Dec 2–4 at ZB MED Cologne to advance collaboration toward #onenfdi. Teams from @ghga.bsky.social, @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social, NFDI4Health, NFDI4Immuno & NFDI4Microbiota aligned on shared services, joint outreach, and metadata needs strengthening the path to a unified #NFDI.

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ: F as in FAIR. Creating data in accordance with the #FAIR principles can be achieved by documenting it, including the associated metadata in a suitable repository, using consistent identifiers and standardized vocabulary. Read more: 👉 www.go-fair.org/fair-princip...

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ: Experimental Metadata. Much of the technical metadata in microscopy is captured automatically, but the story behind the image – how the experiment was designed, performed, and controlled – needs to be added by the researchers themselves. Our Helpdesk is here to support you!

Today's #NFD4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ letter is D as in Data Stewardship which should be a collective endeavour in the research process. If you face challenges with managing your data, the @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social data stewards are happy to support you. Contact them here: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/help-desk/

The third letter in our #NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ calendar is C for Community Standards. Common standards for high-dimensional image data, like the FAIR-IO concept, are being developed by NFDI4BIOIMAGE together with the bioimaging community. 👉 Find out more nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/goa...

The 2nd term of our #NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ calendar is @bioimagearchive.bsky.social, an international data repository for biological image data provided by @ebi.embl.org. It accepts data linked to a publication and promotes measures to increase the reusability of data 👉 www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-arc...

Our campaign #NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ starts with the word 'Annotation' - an important step to not only making your image data #FAIR, but also enriching it with information that goes beyond technical details. If you have questions on the topic, you can contact us: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/help-desk/

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards #6 In our recent blog post, Maximilian Müller describes the implementation of an #OMERO image data management system at @uni-konstanz.de and the challenge in ensuring that this system would be accepted, used and maintained over time. 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/news/news-de...

As part of the #NFDI4DS conference, @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social from @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social gave a presentation on 'How LLMs impact BioImage Data Science', which is now available at #Zenodo. 🍁 👉 Learn more about the use of LLMs and code generation for bioimage analysis: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Last week, our colleagues @joshmoore.bsky.social and @tischi.bsky.social spoke at the 2025 OME-NGFF meeting in Zurich, SUI. Find their presentations here: "The Road to OME-Zarr 1.0" 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... "Accessible sharing of large correlative image datasets" 👉 docs.google.com/presentation...

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards #6 Dr. Maximilian Müller is @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social data steward @uni-konstanz.de. With his background in environmental analysis and #toxicology, he can help you with #ResearchDataManagement, #DataManagementPlans and #OMERO. 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/dat...

📆 For those who haven't turned the page on their calendar yet, here's a reminder. In November, we look at a colorful piece of microscopy art by Jadranka Macas (Institute of Neurology (Edinger Institute), University Hospital Frankfurt). Read more about it here: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/resources-an...

Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases. 👉 gxy.io/eosc25 Picture: Nicolas Lobet

We are delighted to announce that we have reached 1,000 followers on Bluesky 🎉 Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.

Another #RDM4mic meeting, which focused on research data management for microscopy, took place @uni-muenster.de. 💫 Several NFDI4BIOIMAGE task area leaders and data stewards met on site and contributed to the program. Susanne Kunis' presentation is already available: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🌟#MeetOurDataStewards: #5: Mohsen Ahmadi In our latest blog post, Mohsen explains how he developed a #FAIR-compliant workflow that connects #OMERO, #eLabFTW, and #Adamant into one integrated bioimaging data management pipeline. Read about the approach here: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/news/news-de...

At the 19th International GSM CiM-IMPRS Graduate School Meeting 2025 from October 8 to 10, our @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social colleagues Jens Wendt and Marie Baldenius took the opportunity to get in touch with PhD students, postdocs and group leaders and introduce them to the work of the consortium.

🔬We are looking forward to the #RDM4mic meeting that will take place from October 21-23 at the University of Münster. It is co-organized by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and @gerbi-gmb.de and aims to bring together members of the imaging and #RDM community. Read more: 👉 hackmd.io/@marietoveli...

Making your imaging data #FAIR is your goal as a researcher, but you are not sure how? Learn about good data management practices and strengthen your skills in the hands-on Workshop " #RDM for Microscopy" on November 25 in Münster. Register here: 👉 www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/fakultaet/te...

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards: #5: Mohsen Ahmadi Good #ResearchDataManagement is essential for keeping large and multidimensional data sets structured and making them #reusable for future research. Our @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Data Stewards will be happy to help you: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/dat...

@nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Task Area Leaders Josh Moore and Christian Tischer will introduce participants to the history and basics of OME-Zarr at the international 2025 OME-NGFF Symposium from November 10–11 in Zurich, SW. Register here: 👉 www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/... Picture by BioVisionCenter

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards #5: Mohsen Ahmadi He is a a biochemist and works with image microscopy from plasma medicine at @inpgreifswald.bsky.social. If you need help with organizing your microscopy image data, feel free to contact Mohsen. 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/dat...

Save the date for the panel discussion “The Power of Sharing: Open Data in Bioimage Analysis” on October 24, 2025. 🤝 The discussion with experts from various fields related to imaging is organized by Young Microscopists and Image Analysts (YMIA). Register here: 👉 gerbi-gmb.de/machform/vie...

In addition to his work @scadsai.bsky.social, @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social works @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social as task area leader. Here you can listen to Robert's interview in the podcast series “The Microscopists". 👉 themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/episodes/rob...

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards – Highlight Workshop/Publication #4: Vanessa Fuchs Discover I3D:bio's great OMERO training slides, workshop materials and presentations. Valuable resource – not just for us data stewards at @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social but also for you. Check it out! gerbi-gmb.de/i3dbio/i3dbi...

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards – Highlight Training Material #4: Vanessa Fuchs Discover #i3dbio’s great OMERO training material: general training slides, workshop material for using #OMERO and help to ensure smooth IT & Core Facility collaboration. 👉 Check it out: gerbi-gmb.de/i3dbio/i3dbi...

Having trouble with fragmented data sets? The workflow „Linking of Research (Meta-)data in OMERO to Foster FAIR Data in #PlasmaScience“ helps to manage images and metadata according to #FAIR principles, combining #Plasma-MDS and #REMBI standards. Find more information here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Do you know #NFDI? 5 Life Science consortia asked that at the #HHU Core Facility Symposium and introduced services and concepts for RDM. NFDI4Immuno, NFDI4Health, @nfdi4plants.bsky.social, @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social & NFDI4BIOIMAGE showed how #FAIRdata connects disciplines.

Our 3rd quarterly @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social newsletter is out! Find information on the last months' political and strategic developments, links to important papers, recordings and training material as well as an overview of upcoming events. To the newsletter: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/community-in...

🌟#MeetOurDataStewards: #4: Vanessa Fuchs In today's blog post, Vanessa tells you about her first steps toward making her data reusable. In the end, the data was accessible, annotated, and reusable and her colleague was able to reanalyze it. 👉 Find out more: nfdi4bioimage.de/news/news-de...

What to do if you have extraordinary size data but no extraordinary local memory? 😱 At the @grcib2025.bsky.social, @joshmoore.bsky.social addressed this issue in the talk “When Data Doesn’t Fit – A Bioimaging Story from Files to FAIR”. 👉 Interested? zenodo.org/records/1708...