New RO-Crate use cases in geoscience, bioimaging, and workflow execution
20 October 2025 | By Eli Chadwick
Three new use cases have been added to the RO-Crate website:
- M@TE (Model Atlas of the Earth) (written by Sara Polanco) packages geoscience models using RO-Crate
- Open Microscopy Environment (written by Tiago Lubiana) applies RO-Crate to bioimaging
- nf-prov Nextflow plugin (written by Simone Leo) allows Workflow Run RO-Crates to be exported from Nextflow workflows.
Check them out!
Related use cases
By adopting the RO-Crate standard, M@TE packages numerical Earth system models with comprehensive metadata describing code, inputs, outputs, provenance, and authorship. This makes models machine-actionable, reproducible, and citable, supporting open science and bridging the gap between traditional geology and numerical geosciences.
nf-prov is a Nextflow plugin to generate provenance information for pipeline runs. It includes support for the Workflow Run RO-Crate format.
OME is a consortium producing open-source software and format standards for microscopy data. It uses RO-Crate as part of its system for transfering data between OMERO servers, as well as for producing self-documenting data in OME-Zarr, a next-generation file-format (NGFF) standard.