Setting up an institutional OMERO environment for bioimage data: Perspectives from both facility staff and users

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Abstract

Modern bioimaging core facilities at research institutions are essential for managing and maintaining high-end instruments, providing training and support for researchers in experimental design, image acquisition and data analysis. An important task for these facilities is the professional management of complex multidimensional bioimaging data, which are often produced in large quantity and very different file formats. This article details the process that led to successfully implementing the OME Remote Objects system (OMERO) for bioimage-specific research data management (RDM) at the Core Facility Cellular Imaging (CFCI) at the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden). Ensuring compliance with the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles, we outline here the challenges that we faced in adapting data handling and storage to a new RDM system. These challenges included the introduction of a standardised group-specific naming convention, metadata curation with tagging and Key-Value pairs, and integration of existing image processing workflows. By sharing our experiences, this article aims to provide insights and recommendations for both individual researchers and educational institutions intending to implement OMERO as a management system for bioimaging data. We showcase how tailored decisions and structured approaches lead to successful outcomes in RDM practices.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)105-119
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Microscopy
Volume297
Issue number1
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 14 Sept 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 85203957620
ORCID /0000-0002-0320-4223/work/168720324
ORCID /0000-0003-3017-0978/work/168720634

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