Dan White Ph.D.

candidate for

BioImage Archive Team Leader

Who and What am I?

• Biochemist/Bioinformatician
• Advanced Microscopist
• BioImage Analyst
• Scientific Mentor/Collaborator 
• Entertaining Educator
• Open Science Advocate/Facilitator

Who else am I?

• Service oriented 
• Leader in team sports, music...
• Big picture thinker - philosophical: make science better
• Integrator of Information - Bridge between Disciplines
• Creativity - attention to detail
• Open personality - A talker... and a listener

What have I done?

Homology Modelling and Protein Design

Fiji is just ImageJ - Coloc2 plug-in

It's not about me!

Will the audience benefit?

Images, Movies, Gadgets, Music,

Story Telling, Emotional Hooks,

Real Practical Examples.

What next?

• A strong start already - Congratulations!
• Mission: FAIR
• Existing Roadmap
• Infrastructure and scientific stakeholders
• What would I bring to the project?

FAIR

Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability

• Very well established genomic, protein, 3D EM, etc. databases  - community adoption extremely high.
• Database accession number = Publication.
• Value added resources are mature.
• Cell / Tissue microscopy image situation lags behind
• Need = Normalise image dataset submission at publication

Proof of Concept Completed

• Small Scale, project specific databases
• OME + bio-formats
• Cell Image Library
• JCB DataViewer -> Biostudies ->
• Cell-IDR, Tissue-IDR
• BioImage Archive  

Infrastructure and Community

• Global Bioimaging, Euro-Bioimaging, and friends
• ELIXIR
• EOSC-Life
• EMBL-EBI
• Publishers
• Researchers
• NEUBIAS
• ...

Ready to go? Challenges?

• Acceptance by Researchers
• Normalisation of new behaviour
• Funding bodies buy-in and mandate?
• Accession code system, ready?
• Metadata / Ontologies, ready?
• Metadata Curation - capacity, strategy?
• Big Data storage and compute capacity?
• Plans for Value Added tools - scope?
• ...?

What can I bring to the project?

• Very broad technical experience from bioinformatics, through microscopy, to software engineering
• Big picture thinking - what’s really the point?
• Storytelling - Why this IS important to stakeholders
• Attention to detail 
• Connect the dots - value a diverse team/stakeholders
• Effective communication with diverse collaborators
• Mentoring skills
• Gregarious and Sociable, Focussed, Open, Resilient