SciLifeLab OMERO is a prototype bioimage data management service for life science researchers in Sweden and for SciLifeLab facilities. It is a shared place to store, organize, view, annotate and share microscopy and other image data together with the people you work with. It is built on OMERO, the established open-source platform for image data, and hosted by SciLifeLab Data Centre.
The service gives you access-controlled storage for the active stages of a research project. It is a place to work with your image data, not a backup or a long-term archive — you keep your own copy of the raw data throughout, and export your data and results when the project ends.
What you can do
Upload and organize
Bring microscopy and other image data into your OMERO project group and keep it structured.View and annotate
Visualize and annotate image data together with your project members.Reach it from your tools
Work in a web browser, or connect from OMERO.insight, Fiji, napari, the omero command line or the Python API.Work locally or on HPC
Reach the same data from your own machine or from a compute cluster through the OMERO API.Share under your control
Share with your project members, and control who they are through your project in SUPR.Ready for publication
Add metadata as you go, so a dataset is still traceable and intelligible when you come to publish it.Submitting a dataset to a public image data repository is a manual step for now. There is no direct route from the service into those repositories yet.
Who it is for
- Life science research groups in Sweden producing or using microscopy and other image data who need something more robust than local drives and file-by-file sharing
- SciLifeLab facilities, to run user projects and deliver captured data
Collaborators based outside Sweden can be members of a group, as long as the principal investigator is based in Sweden. Sign-in uses your own university or institution account: SUPR handles the authentication and accepts both SWAMID and the international eduGAIN federation.
Good to know:
For research projects the service is free at the point of use. Facilities cover their own storage costs after the pilot phase. It is a prototype, so access is arranged in a guided way to match your project and the support available.
Your data is stored in Sweden, at Chalmers e-Commons in Gothenburg and at SciLifeLab Data Centre in Stockholm.
Availability is best effort and there is no uptime target. Maintenance, outages and server upgrades are announced by email.