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style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Today, 2 July 2019,
EMBL-EBI announced the
launch of its BioImage Archive
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive/">https://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive/</a>); see
the press release at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/press-releases/bioimage-archive-launch">https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/press-releases/bioimage-archive-launch</a>.</span></p>
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style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">EMPIAR
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://empiar.org/">https://empiar.org/</a>) is an active
component of this new initiative which will enable it to grow
into a
sustainable petabyte-scale resource over the next few years.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Using
funding from the UK Research and Innovation Strategic Priorities
Fund, EMBL-EBI
is building IT infrastructure to support the BioImage Archive,
including a
scalable storage architecture (object store), from which EMPIAR
will benefit.
EMPIAR is already getting too big to be supported by NFS file
systems and will
therefore be migrating to the object store over the next few
months. As the
changes only involve the back-end of EMPIAR, we anticipate that
they will not
affect deposition or retrieval of EMPIAR data. The web-based
user interfaces
for both deposition and retrieval of EMPIAR data will appear
unchanged.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Last year,
EMPIAR became an official EMBL-EBI resource, which, together
with it becoming
part of the BioImage Archive, will improve the support for and
long-term
sustainability of EMPIAR. This will help EMPIAR transition from
a small pilot
archive with a relatively narrow scope (raw 2D image data
related to EMDB
entries) at its launch in 2014 to a versatile, integrated and
sustainable
resource for EM-related bioimaging data.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">As the
BioImage Archive is being built up over the next few years,
EMPIAR users and
depositors will experience additional benefits. For instance,
integration of the
archiving of light-microscopy data and EM data will enable
transparent
deposition and retrieval of data for correlative imaging
modalities such as
CLEM and CLXM. It will also enable linking and integration of
diverse
bioimaging datasets from a variety of modalities and on a range
of length
scales.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">For any
questions in this matter, please contact the EMPIAR helpdesk at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:empdep-help@ebi.ac.uk">empdep-help@ebi.ac.uk</a>.</span></p>
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-US">--The EMPIAR Team at
EMBL-EBI</span></p>
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