Services
Our key offerings for you in one place
Our services bring together the full range of support we offer to the research community. Explore our services and tools to support your work, discover upcoming events and training opportunities, access our publications for insights and guidance, and browse repositories for shared data and materials. Together, these resources are designed to foster collaboration, innovation and excellence in research.
We offer services that support the bioimaging community in implementing FAIR data practices. From consultation and guidance to infrastructure- and workflow-related support, our services and tools help researchers and data stewards address practical challenges in everyday bioimage data management.
Help Desk
NFDI4BIOMAGE supports researchers in microscopy data handling and research data management for bioimage analysis.
Training Material Hub
The NFDI4BIOIMAGE Training Material Hub is a rich, FAIR-aligned hub of open research education material that covers microscopy data and metadata handling, bioimage analysis, and research data management. It includes hundreds of curated basic and advanced resources for you to explore and reuse.
Code Maintenance Service
Our research software engineers provide and maintain software and tools that can simplify your research life. Explore what we offer and how you can contribute.
OMERO Services
OMERO is a powerful open-source platform to securely store, organize, visualize, collaboratively access and share microscopy images and metadata. We offer access to OMERO instances including extensive example datasets across microscopy techniques and biological samples through various open OMERO instances.
Remote Analysis Desktops
Bioimage ANalysis Desktop (BAND) and Bioimage Analysis Research Desktop (BARD) are platforms that offer cloud-based desktops accessible with a web browser. So you can comfortably analyze your bioimage data with high computing power from anywhere with an internet connection.
Galaxy Tool Integration
Learn how Galaxy serves as a platform to run bioimage analysis workflows from your microscopy data using a variety of software tools and workflows without any need of installations for you.
JIPipe
JIPipe is a free and open source visual programming language also for non-programmers built on ImageJ that allows the creation of fully automated image analysis pipelines by just drawing a flow chart.
Repositories
Repositories are like a library for images from the microscopic world. Here, researchers can safely store, organise, and share their imaging data, from single cells to complex tissues. Each dataset comes with clear details so others can understand, reuse, and build on your work. By making data accessible, our repositories help science move faster, foster collaboration, and make discoveries more reproducible.
The BioImage Archive, BIA, is a public repository for microscopy datasets linked to publications, spanning imaging from whole organisms to the molecular scale. It uses the REMBI framework to standardise metadata, improving FAIR compliance by supporting interoperability and data re-use.
The Image Data Resource, IDR, is an open repository providing well-annotated reference image datasets from published research. It comprises the cell-IDR and tissue-IDR, which host high-quality imaging data that can be easily explored and re-used.
The Electron Microscopy Public Image Archive is an open repository that stores the raw image data used to generate 3D cryo-EM maps and tomograms, as well as 3D datasets produced by volume electron microscopy and both soft and hard X-ray tomography techniques.
The Preclinical Image Dataset Repository (PIDAR) is an open resource providing metadata for preclinical imaging datasets from any modality, linked to peer-reviewed publications.