Table 1 Global BioImaging partners and participating national and international initiatives

From: A global view of standards for open image data formats and repositories

Entity

Location

URL

Description

Euro-BioImaging ERICa

Europe

http://eurobioimaging.eu

European research infrastructure consortium

Advanced Bioimaging Support

Japan

http://www.nibb.ac.jp/abis

National imaging infrastructure consortium

Canada BioImaging

Canada

http://www.canadabioimaging.org

National imaging consortium

Bioimaging North America

USA, Mexico, Canada

http://www.bioimagingna.org

Transnational imaging consortium

SINGASCOPE

Singapore

 

National imaging infrastructure consortium

Microscopy Australia

Australia

http://micro.org.au

National imaging infrastructure consortium

National Imaging Facility

Australia

http://www.anif.org.au

National imaging infrastructure consortium

National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy

Mexico

http://lnma.unam.mx

National imaging consortium

South Africa BioImaging

South Africa

 

National imaging consortium

India BioImaging Consortium

India

https://www.ncbs.res.in/research-facilities/ciff

National imaging consortium

Open Microscopy Environment

United Kingdom

https://openmicroscopy.org

Open data and software consortium

Systems Science of Biological Dynamics

Japan

https://ssbd.riken.jp

National open data and software project

Australian Characterization Commons at Scale and Characterization Virtual Laboratory

Australia

http://cvl.org.au

National cross-modality imaging informatics infrastructure project

Advanced BioImaging Unit

Uruguay

 

Open bioimaging core facility at the Institut Pasteur Montevideo and Universidad de la República as a joint unit

Laboratory for Scientific Image Processing SCIAN, Network for Advanced Scientific Equipment REDECA, Biomedical Neuroscience Institute BNI & Advanced Imaging, Bioinformatics Initiative AIBI, and National Center for Health Information Systems (CENS)

Chile

http://redeca.med.uchile.cl, http://bni.cl/biomat.php, http://aibi.cl, http://www.cens.cl

Open biomedical and medical imaging and data facility at the University of Chile in collaboration with 5 Chilean university facilities

  1. Status: January 2021.
  2. aEuro-BioImaging ERIC is a distributed research infrastructure with its statutory seat in Finland. EMBL hosts the community-specific section for biological imaging, as well as general data services. Italy hosts the community-specific section for medical imaging.