Community Partners

We closely partner with several national and international bioimaging communities, research consortia and Research Data Management and Sharing (RDMS) initiatives to promote quality and reproducibility and share value for imaging data. 

1) BioImaging Communities connect, empower, and give a unified voice to the bioimaging community to advance science: 

1. Association of BioMedical Research Facilities (ABRF)
2. BioImaging North America (BINA)
3. Canada BioImaging (CBI)
4. Quality Assessment and Reproducibility for Images and Instruments in Light Microscopy (QUAREP-LiMi)
5. Global BioImaging (GBI)
6. German BioImaging (GerBI)
7. Research Data Alliance (RDA)

2) Research Consortia advance scientific discovery by sharing protocols, tools, and data to achieve common goals:

1. NIH-Common Fund 4D Nucleome (4DN) consortium
2. NIH-Common Fund Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HubMAP) consortium
3. NIH-Common Fund Cellular Senescence (SenNet) consortium

3) RDMS community initiatives develop openly accessible cyberinfrastructure and software tools to promote data management and sharing

1. Open Microscopy Environment (OME)
2. OME-hosted public Image Data Resource (OME-IDR)
3. EMBL-EBI hosted public BioImage Archive (BiA)
4. RIKEN-hosted SBBD: database and SBBD: repository

4) Persistent Identifier efforts develop infrastructure to track digital objects (publications, data, etc.), resources, researchers, and institutions using long-lasting, unique references that ensure reliable access and citation over time.

1. Research Organizations Registry (ROR) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for Research Organizations.
2. Research Resource Identifiers (RRID) help researchers cite key resources (antibodies, model organisms, and software projects) in the biomedical literature to improve the transparency of research methods.
3. CoreMarketplace utilizes RRID to provide a registry of institutional Core Facilities.
4. Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) provides a PID for individuals to use in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.
5. Persistent Identifier for Instruments (PIDINST) is a community-driven solution for global identification of instruments operated in the sciences.
6. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) keeps track of physical, digital, or abstract objects, including publications, data, material, or activities.