Human Organ Atlas team awarded EU funding for open science

The Human Organ Atlas team have been awarded a grant from the Open Science Clusters Action for Research and Society (OSCARS) project. The grant, titled “Handling Enourmous Files from Tomographic Imaging Experiments” (HEFTIE for short) will help scientists around the world work with huge bio-imaging datasets, unlocking the potential of existing open data to make new advances in biosciences and healthcare.

At the core of the grant we will write a new digital textbook explaining how to work with huge imaging datasets that are being generated by modern scientific experiments. Alongside this, software engineers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) will develop new tools for scientists working with huge imaging datasets, and scalableminds will develop new tools for analysing and annotating datasets within the webknossos platform.

For more information, see the HEFTIE project page on the OSCARS website.