OME-Zarr: a cloud-optimized bioimaging file format with international community support

• DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.17.528834
• Publication Date: 2023-02-21T17:14:49Z
• Authors: Josh Moore; Daniela Basurto-L...; Sébastien Besson; John Bogovic; Jordão Bragantini; Eva M. Brown; Jean-Marie Burel; Xavier Casas Moreno; Gustavo de Medeiros; Erin E. Diel; David Gault; Satrajit S. Ghosh; Ilan Gold; Yaroslav O. Halch...; Matthew Hartley; Dave Horsfall; Mark S. Keller; Mark Kittisopikul; Gabor Kovacs; Aybüke Küpcü Yoldaş; Koji Kyoda; Albane le Tournou...; Tong Li; Prisca Liberali; Dominik Lindner; Melissa Linkert; Joel Lüthi; Jeremy Maitin-She...; Trevor Manz; Luca Marconato; Matthew McCormick; Merlin Lange; Khaled Mohamed; William Moore; Nils Norlin; Wei Ouyang; Bugra Özdemir; Giovanni Palla; Constantin Pape; Lucas Pelkmans; Tobias Pietzsch; Stephan Preibisch; Martin Prete; Norman Rzepka; Sameeul Samee; Nicholas Schaub; Hythem Sidky; Ahmet Can Solak; David R. Stirling; Jonathan Striebel; Christian Tischer; Daniel Toloudis; Isaac Virshup; Petr Walczysko; Alan M. Watson; Erin Weisbart; Frances Wong; Kevin A. Yamauchi; Omer Bayraktar; Beth A. Cimini; Nils Gehlenborg; Muzlifah Haniffa; Nathan Hotaling; Shuichi Onami; Loic A. Royer; Stephan Saalfeld; Oliver Stegle; Fabian J. Theis; Jason R. Swedlow
• Keywords: File format; Component (thermodynamics); Modalities

A growing community is constructing a next-generation file format (NGFF) for bioimaging to overcome problems of scalability and heterogeneity. Organized by the Open Microscopy Environment (OME), individuals institutes across diverse modalities facing these have designed specification process (OME-NGFF) address needs. This paper brings together wide range those members describe cloud-optimized itself -- OME-Zarr along with tools data resources available today increase FAIR access remove barriers in scientific process. The current momentum offers an opportunity unify key component domain that underlies so many personal, institutional, global management analysis tasks.