Euro-BioImaging ERIC
Overview
Euro-BioImaging is the European Research Infrastructure Consortium for biological and biomedical imaging, established as an ERIC in 2019 after entering the ESFRI Roadmap in 2008 and receiving ESFRI Landmark status in 2018. It provides open access to state-of-the-art imaging technologies, training, and data services across 41 Nodes comprising 295 facilities in 18 countries and the EMBL. Its scope spans the full imaging spectrum, from super-resolution and light-sheet fluorescence microscopy at the cellular scale to clinical MRI and PET at the organism scale, and it is the direct European counterpart of France BioImaging.
Structure
Euro-BioImaging operates through a distributed Hub model. The Seat is in Turku, Finland (Director General: John Eriksson). The Bio-Hub is at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, covering biological imaging. The Med-Hub is in Turin, Italy, covering medical imaging including MRI, PET, and SPECT. The 41 Nodes are distributed across Europe, each specialising in specific imaging technologies; researchers access nodes directly via the Hub portal.
Open Science and Data Services
Euro-BioImaging has a mandate to promote open access to imaging instrumentation and expertise. It provides image data services including FAIR data management, deposition support, and cloud-based image analysis, with strong collaboration with OME for data format standardisation (OME-TIFF, OME-Zarr) and OMERO deployment at nodes. It partners with the BioImage Archive (EMBL-EBI) for image data deposition, actively participates in EOSC and the Global BioImaging network, and works with QUAREP-LiMi for microscopy QC standards.
Connections
- French node: France BioImaging
- Part of: EOSC
- ESFRI cluster: ELIXIR, BBMRI-ERIC, EATRIS, ECRIN
- QC collaboration: QUAREP-LiMi
Resources
- https://www.eurobioimaging.eu
- https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/use-our-services (node access portal)