Can imaging and genomic data be submitted to NDAR?
Yes, NDAR is able to accept both imaging and genomic data along with common measure data and phenotypic data. For imaging data, NDAR supports DICOM, NIFTI, AFNI, MINC 1.0, MINC 2.0, Analyze, SPM, GE, Siemens, and MIPAV formats. NDAR has adopted the MIPAV XML format for gathering metadata on images to be submitted to NDAR. The MIPAV (Medical Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization) (http://mipav.cit.nih.gov) application enables quantitative analysis and visualization of medical images of numerous modalities such as PET, MRI, CT, or microscopy. MIPAV contains a module that processes images and generates the MIPAV XML required for imaging data submission to NDAR. Similar to clinical assessments, the NDAR Data Dictionary defines the field names and acceptable values for image metadata which the MIPAV XML data file(s) must adhere to. The data dictionary also has a sample imaging MIPAV XML file for reference. For the information about the experiment (metadata), NDAR supports Templates
