BARD is a virtual desktop platform based on Kubernetes, developed for cloud-based bioimage analysis tasks. It was developed based on the open-source project abcdesktop. Everything in BARD, such as applications, system APIs etc are docker containers.
All applications on BARD are standard containers with some BARD specifics, such as LABEL etc. You can find all the application containers here
- EMBL internal BARD: https://bard.embl.de (used by EMBL staff for day-to-day image analysis)
- EMBL external BARD: https://bard-external.embl.de (used for external courses)
- Install Kubernetes cluster (optional if you already have a cluster)
- Deploy BARD
Course Name | No. of Participants | Date |
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EMBL Advanced deep learning for image analysis | 20 | Feb 17-24 2025 |
EMBO Practical Integrative structural biology: solving molecular puzzles | 20 | Nov.17-24 2024 |
EMBL Pre-doc Course | 14 | Oct 21-25, 2024 |
EMBO Practical Current methods in cell biology | 24 | Sept. 2024 |
EMBO Advances in cryo-electron microscopy and 3D image processing | 24 | Aug. 2024 |
To contribute to the BARD, please open PR for any questions, bug fixes, feature requests etc.
Tischer, C., Hériché, J.-K., & Sun, Y. (2025). A Virtual Bioimage Analysis Research Desktop (BARD) for Deployment of Bioimage Tools on Kubernetes. Base4NFDI User Conference 2024 (UC4B2024), Berlin. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14643885