Jean-Marie
BUREL
Dr., Group Leader
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Image Data standard, Software development, FAIR data.
My research focuses on developing open-source technologies to build the data management and integration tools needed to make imaging data a first-class resource for the next generation of life sciences research. We develop and release data models, file format translators and data management software. Our flagship tools Bio-Formats and OMERO are used daily by both academic and industry communities. We have both tools to build the Image Data Resource (IDR), one of the largest public bioimaging data repositories in the world. IDR publishes bioimaging datasets associated with peer reviewed publications.We are part of a consortium combining software developers with experimental biologists, imaging scientists using many different modalities, and data repository experts who will collaborate to design and deliver the next generation of data format technologies e.g. OME-NGFF, OME-Zarr for use by the global imaging community.
Five Main Publications
bia-binder: A web-native cloud compute service for the bioimage analysis community,
C. T. Russell, J.-M. Burel, A. Athar, S. Li, U. Sarkans, J. Swedlow, A. Brazma, M. Hartley, V. Uhlmann, Bioinformatics, 41(8), btaf412, 2025.
"Be sustainable": EOSC-Life recommendations for implementation of FAIR principles in life science data handling EMBO J 42
R. David, A. Rybina, J-M. Burel et al, EMBJ2023115008 (2023).
OME-NGFF: a next-generation file format for expanding bioimaging data-access strategies
Moore, J., Allan, C., Besson, S. et al. Nat Methods 18, 1496–1498 (2021).
Publishing and sharing multi-dimensional image data with OMERO
Burel, JM., Besson, S., Blackburn, C. et al. Mamm Genome 26, 441–447 (2015).
OMERO: flexible, model-driven data management for experimental biology
Allan, C., Burel, JM., Moore, J. et al. Nat Methods 9, 245–253 (2012).