Today, December 3, 2021, a special edition of Nature Methods was published containing an amazing selection of publications aimed at improving the quality of research results based on light microscopic techniques. The edition contains proposals, requests and demands from researchers for the development and establishment of new quality standards, software tools and techniques for recording, documenting and storing microscope images.
The whole Nature Methods issue about
Reporting and reproducibility in microscopy
can be found here
Nine publications all involving many members of QUAREP-LiMi as authors can be found within the December Nature Methods issue:
- QUAREP-LiMi: a community endeavor to advance quality assessment and reproducibility in light microscopy
- Towards community-driven metadata standards for light microscopy: tiered specifications extending the OME model
- Micro-Meta App: an interactive tool for the collection of microscopy metadata based on community-driven specifications
- MethodsJ2: a software tool to capture metadata and generate comprehensive microscopy methods text
- MDEmic: a metadata annotation tool to facilitate management of FAIR image data in the bioimaging community
- REMBI: Recommended Metadata for Biological Images—enabling reuse of microscopy data in biology
- Best practices and tools for reporting reproducible fluorescence microscopy methods
- OME-NGFF: scalable format strategies for interoperable bioimaging data
- A global view of standards for open image data formats and repositories
