FAIRsharing record for: Imaging Mass Spectrometry Markup Language

This FAIRsharing record describes: The purpose of imzML is to facilitate the exchange and processing of mass spectrometry imaging data. This website is intended to provide all information necessary to implement imzML. imzML data format consists of two separate files: one for the metadata and one for the MS data. The metadata is saved in an XML file (*.imzML; the XML metadata model of imzML is the same as for mzML by HUPO-PSI). The mass spectral data is saved in a binary file (*.ibd). The connection between the two files is made via links in the XML file which hold the offsets of the mass spectral data in the binary file. It is important to keep in mind that the information of both file is only valid if no file is missing. imzML is it not limited to MS imaging, but is also useful for other MS applications generating large data sets such as LC-FTMS.