Title: NFDI4BioImage

Duration: 2023 – 2028

Research Area: Life Science and Medicine

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.

Aims

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.

Outlook

At ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig and Leipzig University, we will focus on coordinating Training Activities and Community Integration within NFDI4BioImage. We will setup a database of training materials and organize courses to spread knowledge about best practices in Research Data Management for Microscopy Imaging Data.

Publications

• Research data management for bioimaging: the 2021 NFDI4BIOIMAGE community survey https://f1000research.com/articles/11-638v
• NFDI4BIOIMAGE – An Initiative for a National Research Data Infrastructure for Microscopy Data https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29489/

Team

Lead

• Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters (HHU Düsseldorf)

Team Members

• Robert Haase (Leipzig University)
• Yixin Huang (Leipzig University)

Partners

• Prof. Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf und German BioImaging – Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V. )
• Björn Grüning (Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
• Anna Kreshuk (Europäisches Laboratorium für Molekularbiologie)
• Elisa May (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum)
• Jan-Philipp Mallm (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum)
• Marc-Thilo Figge (Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoffforschung und Infektionsbiologie)
• Werner Zuschratter (Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie)
• Thomas Zobel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
• Markus Blank-Burian (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
• Susanne Kunis (Universität Osnabrück)