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Data Exchange Formats and Metadata Standards for Research Data Management and Sharing

Minimum Information About Particle Tracking Experiments (MIAPTE)

The figure represents an ER diagram depicting the MIAPTE data model. — Entity-Relationship diagram representing the Trajectory Elements of MIAPTE. Red entities represent MIAPTE-specific elements and attributes responsible for storing information related to single particle tracking data. Blue entities represent elements shared with the OME Data Model directly related to MIAPTE. Grey entities represent elements shared with the Analysis Elements section of MIAPTE (see Figure 3 in Rigano and Strambio-De-Castillia, 2017).

MIAPTE represents the minimal information required to report and support interpreting and assessing data from intracellular multiple particle tracking (MPT) experiments. Examples of such experiments are those employed to track viral particles as they move from the site of entry to the site of replication within an infected cell or those following vesicular dynamics during secretion, endocytosis, or exocytosis.

The ultimate aim of MIAPTE is to make MPT data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), thus maximizing the reliability, reproducibility, and re-use of particle tracking experiments.