Dear colleagues,

We warmly invite you to our next NFDI4Microbiota Coffee Talk with Ivan Belyaev from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

BEXIS2 is a free and open-source community-driven web-based research data management system . It facilitates the rich metadata annotation, data provenance preservation, and semantic integration of different data types acquired in microbiological experiments or collected in the natural environment. The simultaneous support of multiple schemas and the data-agnostic architecture of the software alleviate the management of complex data, including those acquired by correlative methods, like correlative light-electron microscopy or spatial proteomics. The system modularity allows modification of its various components, from database schemes to the user interface. The OpenAPI-compliant APIs of the BEXIS2 simplify the development of new functions and integration with third-party software (e.g. OMERO).

In the Cluster of Excellence ‘Balance of the Microverse’ , we are instantiating the BEXIS2 as a meta-data management platform that implements community-accepted minimal information standards (e.g. REMBI, MIAPE, dMIQE2020, MARGARITAS) in conjunction with ontologies and controlled vocabularies. For that, we are developing a new interface module for external terminology services, such as TS4NFDI. In this contribution, we will provide technical details on the BEXIS2 architecture, discuss recent advances, and demonstrate metadata management workflow for NMR and light microscopy data.

Best regards,

The NFDI4Microbiota Outreach Team