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abstract: >-
  A growing community is constructing a next-generation file format (NGFF) for
  bioimaging to overcome problems of scalability and heterogeneity. Organized by
  the Open Microscopy Environment (OME), individuals and institutes across
  diverse modalities facing these problems have designed a format specification
  process (OME-NGFF) to address these needs. Those community members have built
  the format itself – OME-Zarr – along with tools and data resources available
  today to increase FAIR access and remove barriers in the scientific process.
  The current momentum offers an opportunity to unify a key component of the
  bioimaging domain — the file format that underlies so many personal,
  institutional, and global data management and analysis tasks.
title: Next-generation file format specification
authors:
  - family-names: Moore
    given-names: Josh
    orcid: 0000-0003-4028-811X
  - family-names: Bogovic
    given-names: John
    orcid: 0000-0002-4829-9457
  - family-names: Soltwedel
    given-names: Johannes
    orcid: 0000-0003-1273-2412
  - family-names: Marconato
    given-names: Luca
    orcid: 0000-0003-3198-1326
  - family-names: Bennett
    given-names: Davis
  - family-names: Moore
    given-names: William
    orcid: 0000-0002-7264-8338
  - family-names: McCormick
    given-names: Matt
    orcid: 0000-0001-9475-3756
  - family-names: Toloudis
    given-names: Daniel
    orcid: 0000-0003-2620-1233
  - family-names: Collman
    given-names: Forrest
    orcid: 0000-0002-0280-7022
  - family-names: Gaudreault
    given-names: Nathalie
    orcid: 0000-0002-9220-5366
  - family-names: Feng
    given-names: David
  - family-names: Burel
    given-names: Jean-Marie
    orcid: 0000-0002-1789-1861
  - family-names: Swedlow
    given-names: Jason R.
    orcid: 0000-0002-2198-1958
  - family-names: Gold
    given-names: Ilan
    orcid: 0000-0002-5823-1026
  - family-names: Maitin-Shepard
    given-names: Jeremy
    orcid: 0000-0001-8453-7961
  - family-names: Stansby
    given-names: David
    orcid: 0000-0002-1365-1908
  - family-names: Besson
    given-names: Sébastien
    orcid: 0000-0001-8783-1429
  - family-names: Rzepka
    given-names: Norman
    orcid: 0000-0002-8168-7929
  - family-names: Perlman
    given-names: Eric
    orcid: 0000-0001-5542-1302
  - family-names: Lüthi
    given-names: Joel
    orcid: 0000-0003-3023-170X
  - family-names: Cerrone
    given-names: Lorenzo
    orcid: 0000-0001-7337-2313
  - family-names: Tischer
    given-names: Christian
    orcid: 0000-0003-4105-1990
  - family-names: Hartley
    given-names: Matthew
    orcid: 0000-0001-6178-2884
  - family-names: Albert
    given-names: Marvin
    orcid: 0000-0003-2536-2545
  - family-names: Allan
    given-names: Chris
    orcid: 0000-0002-8151-4059
  - family-names: Barnes
    given-names: Chris
    orcid: 0000-0002-1296-7310
  - family-names: Best
    given-names: Benedikt T.
    orcid: 0000-0001-6965-1117
  - family-names: Comparin
    given-names: Tommaso
    orcid: 0000-0001-6853-5931
  - family-names: Deakin
    given-names: Lachlan
    orcid: 0000-0003-2026-759X
  - family-names: Diabira
    given-names: Assa
  - family-names: Dunster
    given-names: Gideon
    orcid: 0000-0001-9050-0225
  - family-names: Eglinger
    given-names: Jan
    orcid: 0000-0001-7234-1435
  - family-names: Gay
    given-names: Guillaume
    orcid: 0000-0002-5444-5246
  - family-names: Gui
    given-names: Xiao
  - family-names: Halchenko
    given-names: Yaroslav O.
    orcid: 0000-0001-7482-1299
  - family-names: Hniopek
    given-names: Julian
    orcid: 0000-0002-8652-8812
  - family-names: Innerberger
    given-names: Michael
    orcid: 0000-0002-7001-8682
  - family-names: Kittisopikul
    given-names: Mark
    orcid: 0000-0002-9558-6248
  - family-names: Lambert
    given-names: Talley
    orcid: 0000-0002-2409-0181
  - family-names: Linkert
    given-names: Melissa
  - family-names: Liu
    given-names: Ziwen
    orcid: 0000-0001-7482-1299
  - family-names: Lubiana
    given-names: Tiago
  - family-names: Nunez-Iglesias
    given-names: Juan
    orcid: 0000-0002-7239-5828
  - family-names: Özdemir
    given-names: Bugra
    orcid: 0000-0001-9823-0581
  - family-names: Palla
    given-names: Giovanni
    orcid: 0000-0002-8004-4462
  - family-names: Pape
    given-names: Constantin
    orcid: 0000-0001-6562-7187
  - family-names: Rhode
    given-names: Sebastian
  - family-names: Scarlett
    given-names: Virginia
    orcid: 0000-0002-4156-2849
  - family-names: Shepherd
    given-names: Doug
    orcid: 0000-0001-9087-0832
  - family-names: Uhlmann
    given-names: Virginie
    orcid: 0000-0002-2859-9241
  - family-names: Vierdag
    given-names: Wouter-Michiel
    orcid: 0000-0003-1666-5421
  - family-names: Virshup
    given-names: Isaac
    orcid: 0000-0002-1710-8945
  - family-names: Watson
    given-names: Alan
    orcid: 0000-0003-0632-8296
  - family-names: Windhager
    given-names: Jonas
    orcid: 0000-0002-2111-5291
  - family-names: Yamauchi
    given-names: Kevin
    orcid: 0000-0002-7818-1388
  - family-names: Zubov
    given-names: Yurii
    orcid: 0000-0003-1988-8081
  - family-names: Zukić
    given-names: Dženan
    orcid: 0000-0002-9546-9703
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.1038/s41592-021-01326-w
    description: Original Nature Methods article (2021)
  - type: doi
    value: 10.1101/2023.02.17.528834v2
    description: OME-Zarr preprint (2023)
keywords:
  - FAIR
  - community
  - bioimaging
  - data
  - cloud
  - format
license: CC-BY-4.0
url: https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org
repository: https://github.com/ome/ngff-spec
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01326-w
  journal: Nature Methods
  month: 11
  start: 1496
  end: 1498
  title: >-
    OME-NGFF: a next-generation file format for expanding bioimaging data-access
    strategies
  issue: 12
  volume: 18
  year: 2021
  authors:
    - given-names: Josh
      family-names: Moore
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-811X
    - given-names: Chris
      family-names: Allan
    - given-names: Sébastien
      family-names: Besson
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-1429
    - given-names: Jean-Marie
      family-names: Burel
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1789-1861
    - given-names: Erin
      family-names: Diel
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2526-3512
    - given-names: David
      family-names: Gault
    - given-names: Kevin
      family-names: Kozlowski
    - given-names: Dominik
      family-names: Lindner
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8038-1250
    - given-names: Melissa
      family-names: Linkert
    - given-names: Trevor
      family-names: Manz
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7694-5164
    - given-names: Will
      family-names: Moore
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7264-8338
    - given-names: Constantin
      family-names: Pape
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6562-7187
    - given-names: Christian
      family-names: Tischer
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4105-1990
    - given-names: Jason R.
      family-names: Swedlow
      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-1958
type: software
repository-code: https://github.com/ome/ngff