BioImage Cloud through the underground

The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed
— William Gibson

Project members

The BioImage Cloud project @ FBI.data

The package metaphor

ISA and REMBI Standards

BioImage Cloud

What we offer

• Ease microscopy data transport and use
  — platforms, research teams, bioimage analyst
• Federate compute and storage
• FAIR data, easy to archive in public repos

Deployed network

Organisational model (tentative)

Traversing network boundaries

The difficulty

• IT staff gets nervous when you put a computer in their network
• Endless list of ports to open
• Unclear duty boundaries

The technical solution

• netmaker creates a machine to machine VPN
• the buffer only exposes FTPs
• we went through a lengthy security vetting procedure

Thank you

The project exists thanks to incredible communities

• France BioImaging
• CNRS IMABIO / RTmfm
• OME

Many thanks to you all