Software tools for Research Data Management and Sharing
Micro-Meta App: Microscopy Metadata for the Real World!
Micro Meta App is an easy-to-use and powerful software platform that provides an intuitive visual guide to capture and manage Microscopy Metadata based on the 4DN-BINA-QUAREP revision of the OME data model.
A detailed description of the Micro-Meta App was published in Nature Methods and featured on a FOCUS ISSUE dedicated to Reporting and reproducibility in microscopy, which featured multiple publications emerging from the global bioimaging community.
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Micro-Meta App functionalities flowchart. (A) After selecting the most appropriate documentation tier level (2), the Manage Instrument section (B) allows the creation of a visual representation of the hardware configuration of a given microscope, which is then saved in a Microscope.JSON file (3). Finally, the Manage Settings section (C) allows the collection of relevant hardware information from an existing Microscope.JSON file (3), uses BioFormats to retrieve existing OME image metadata (4), and creates a JSON file (5) containing the acquisition settings used for a given imaging experiment. Figure adapted from: Rigano et al., 2021. Nat Methods https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01315-z.