Open EM Data Network

Category

Establish

Institutions

ETH Zurich, EPFL, Empa, PSI, with swissuniversities partners UNIGE, UNIBE, UNIBAS, UNIL

Data type

Electron micrographs, tomograms, tilt series, diffraction images, spectrograms, electron density maps, atomic models, and processing workflows.

Field

Electron Microscopy

Researchers

Alexandra Radenovic, Andrzej J. Rzepiela, Bilal Qureshi, Christophe Copéret, Christophe Briand, Daniel Böhringer, Elisabeth Müller, Gebhard Schertler, Gregor Cicchetti, Henning Stahlberg, Marco Cantoni, Miroslav Peterek, Nicolas Blanc, Rolf Erni, Spencer Bliven, Stephan Egli, and Volodymyr Korkhov

Abstract

The Open EM Data Network (OpenEM) in Switzerland will implement ORD practices for Electron Microscopy (EM). Cryo-EM has revolutionized protein structure determination, while materials science has seen a surge in possibilities, including 4D STEM data. This has led to increased data volumes and computational needs. OpenEM will extend PSI’s SciCat Data Catalog to provide open and FAIR access to EM data Swiss-wide. It aims to standardize data and metadata collection, streamline acquisition, facilitate data sharing, automate deposition in international ORD repositories, offer user training, and establish a sustainable structure beyond the project’s closure. A parallel initiative through the swissuniversities CHORD program funds the participation of partners outside the ETH domain. OpenEM complements the “EM frontiers” initiative to advance electron microscopy technology in Switzerland, included in the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2023.

See the website: https://swissopenem.github.io/

Open EM Data Network

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