❄️ Winter Data Wonder – Big Microscopy Data at Your Fingertips

NFDI4BIOIMAGE shows how even a 100-GB microscopy dataset can be accessed on a smartphone using OME-Zarr — a cloud-compatible format that enables streaming large image data directly in the browser.

Making microscopy data more accessible, reusable and FAIR — anytime, anywhere.

🔗 https://nfdi4bioimage.de/news/news-details/ever-wondered-if-you-could-access-a-100-gb-dataset-on-your-mobile/

Contributed by @nfdi4bioimage

#NFDI #NFDI4BIOIMAGE #WinterDataWonders #OMEZarr
#MicroscopyData #FAIRdata #OpenScience

In ngff-zarr, we released a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server 🧬🔬
This means you can now use natural language to:

✅ Convert datasets to OME-Zarr format
✅ Optimize compression codecs automatically
✅ Configure intelligent sharding
✅ Generate Python scripts for batch processing
✅ Validate OME-Zarr stores

https://ngff-zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mcp.html

#ScientificImaging #OMEZarr #AI #ResearchSoftware #ReproducibleResearch #MCP

Know someone looking for a new start in 2025? 🔍 #getfedihired

🚀 We're hiring! Join the @GerBI Team as a Software Developer!

💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions

🌍 Collaborate globally

🎯 Contribute to open science through
#OMEZarr

@ome @zarr

Remote, full-time. Apply by 31 Jan 2025:

https://bit.ly/3Zrd4SR

🚀 **Join the 3rd Get Your Brain Together Hackathon!** 🧠

🔍 **Purpose:**
Our focus: advancing **OME-Zarr spatial transformations**!

Enhancing:
- **Reproducibility**: Consistent transformations across platforms.
- **Workflow Integration**: Seamless image analysis steps.
- **Accuracy**: Reduced resampling errors.
- **Flexibility**: Supports diverse research needs.

More: https://insightsoftwareconsortium.github.io/GetYourBrainTogether/HCK03_2024_UNC_Hybrid/

#Neuroimaging #Bioimaging #OMEZarr #Hackathon #OpenSource #ScientificResearch

OME's next Annual Community Meeting is May 29-31, 2024 in sunny Dundee!!! Spend 2 days with the community talking all things #OMERO, #OMEZarr, and public bioimage #FAIRdata resources. More info and registration:

https://www.openmicroscopy.org/events/ome-community-meeting-2024/

OME-ZARR is a possible candidate for a standard IR/Raman file format.

[from Twitter]
We look forward to this Friday's #VirtualPub with @joel_luethi, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, and Bugra Özdemir of Euro-BioImaging.
They will take us on an "Exploration and Analysis of Image Data using #OMEZarr." All are welcome! https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/about-us/virtual-pub

"How open-source software could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language"

@Nature Technology Feature out now covering #OMEZarr with thoughts by @joshmoore, @bethcimini, @BogovicJohn, and more.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03064-9

I am very happy to see this piece and the growing adoption of OME-Zarr. It is the key to make image analysis scalable and interoperable, even for the largest images. With @webknossos we build software to make it easy to work with #OMEZarr.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03064-9