Micro-Meta App: an interactive tool for collecting microscopy metadata based on community specifications
Alessandro Rigano, Shannon Ehmsen, Serkan Utku Öztürk, Joël Ryan, Alexander Balashov, Mathias Hammer, Koray Kırlı, Ulrike Boehm, Claire M. Brown, Karl Bellvé, James J. Chambers, Andrea Cosolo, Robert A. Coleman, Orestis Faklaris, Kevin E. Fogarty, Thomas Guilbert, Anna B. Hamacher, Michelle S. Itano, Daniel P. Keeley, Susanne Kunis, Judith Lacoste, Alex Laude, Y. Willa, Marco Marcello, Paula Montero Llopis, Glyn Nelson, Roland Nitschke, Jaime A. Pimentel, Stefanie Weidtkamp‐Peters, Peter J. Park, B. Alver, David Grünwald, Caterina Strambio‐De‐Castillia
Abstract
For quality, interpretation, reproducibility and sharing value, microscopy images should be accompanied by detailed descriptions of the conditions that were used to produce them. Micro-Meta App is an intuitive, highly interoperable, open-source software tool that was developed in the context of the 4D Nucleome (4DN) consortium and is designed to facilitate the extraction and collection of relevant microscopy metadata as specified by the recent 4DN-BINA-OME tiered-system of Microscopy Metadata specifications. In addition to substantially lowering the burden of quality assurance, the visual nature of Micro-Meta App makes it particularly suited for training purposes.