Mathias Hammer

This paper proposes tiered metadata specifications for light microscopy to improve data quality, reproducibility, and interoperability, inspired by genomic standards like Encode.

Micro-Meta App is an open-source tool that helps collect and organize microscopy metadata according to community standards, improving reproducibility and data sharing.

The paper explains an unexplained discrepancy in photon count ratios used to estimate axial position in single-molecule localization microscopy and shows susceptibility to optical aberrations.