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ArticleNature methods2017

The Image Data Resource: A Bioimage Data Integration and Publication Platform.

Eleanor Williams, Josh Moore, Simon W Li, Gabriella Rustici, Aleksandra Tarkowska, Anatole Chessel, Simone Leo, Bálint Antal, Richard K Ferguson, Ugis Sarkans and 3 more

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Article in Nature methods, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 163 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
163citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

163 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Eleanor Williams *Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Josh Moore *Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Simon W Li *Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Gabriella RusticiCentre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Aleksandra TarkowskaCentre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Anatole ChesselPharmacology & Genetics Departments and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Simone LeoCentre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Bálint AntalPharmacology & Genetics Departments and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Richard K FergusonCentre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Ugis SarkansEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Alvis BrazmaEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Rafael E Carazo SalasPharmacology & Genetics Departments and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Jason R SwedlowCentre for Gene Regulation & Expression & Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M018423/1Wellcome Trust 095931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Access to primary research data is vital for the advancement of science. To extend the data types supported by community repositories, we built a prototype Image Data Resource (IDR) that collects and integrates imaging data acquired across many different imaging modalities. IDR links data from several imaging modalities, including high-content screening, super-resolution and time-lapse microscopy, digital pathology, public genetic or chemical databases, and cell and tissue phenotypes expressed using controlled ontologies. Using this integration, IDR facilitates the analysis of gene networks and reveals functional interactions that are inaccessible to individual studies. To enable re-analysis, we also established a computational resource based on Jupyter notebooks that allows remote access to the entire IDR. IDR is also an open source platform that others can use to publish their own image data. Thus IDR provides both a novel on-line resource and a software infrastructure that promotes and extends publication and re-analysis of scientific image data.

Indexed as

Database Management SystemsDatabases, FactualSoftwareUser-Computer InterfaceAlgorithmsImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedInformation DisseminationPublishingSystems Integration

Identifiers

PMID28775673
PMCPMC5536224

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