The Image Data Resource: Making Biological Imaging Data FAIR (360G-Wellcome-212962_Z_18_Z)

We have built the Image Data Resource (IDR; http://idr.openmicroscopy.org; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5536224/), an added value database prototype that publishes and integrates scientific image datasets linked to peer-reviewed publications. As of this writing, IDR publishes > 45 TB of image data, > 1.0 million experiments, and > 37 million image planes in 46 published studies. The resource is accessed by more than 1600 unique users per month, generating > 1 million hits/month. Under the proposed Biomedical Resource Award, we will continue growing IDR, taking in more and more diverse imaging datasets, and scaling the computational resources that enable online, cloud-based computation, querying and re-analysis of IDR datasets. A major focus of this project is the engagement with a range of biologists, image analysts and computational biologists through our participation in NEUBIAS, Euro-BioImaging and Global BioImaging to test new User Interface and Experience concepts to substantially grow the interaction and accessibility of IDR and its data. We will leverage EMBL-EBI’s extensive community/training resources to hold several user testing and training sessions to achieve this aim.