A FAIR road to a bioAFM databank

Jean Luc Pellequer; Sebastian Aguayo; Andrea Alessandrini; David Alsteens; Toshio Ando; Audrey Beaussart; Michael Betton; Timo Betz; Kerstin G. Blank; Simone Bovio; Clément Campillo; Claudio Canale; Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera; Filomena A. Carvalho; Ignacio Casuso; Guillaume Charras; Marti Checa; Liam Collins; Adai Colom; Luca Costa; Etienne Dague; Tanya E.S. Dahms; Pedro Jose de Pablo; Alexandra Delvallée; Simone Dinarelli; Lorna Dougan; Yves F. Dufrêne; Andra C. Dumitru; Yuri M. Efremov; Sofiane El-Kirat-Chatel; Paolo Facci; Georg E. Fantner; Amir Farokh Payam; Cécile Feuillie; Cristina Flors; Nancy Forde; Cécile Formosa-Dague; Gregory Francius; Clemens M. Franz; Kristian Franze; Ricardo Garcia; Sergi Garcia-Manyes; Núria Gavara; Marina I. Giannotti; Marco Girasole; Martin Guthold; George R. Heath; Céline Heu; Peter Hinterdorfer; Jamie K. Hobbs; Bart W. Hoogenboom; Sébastien Janel; Miklós Kellermayer; Petr Klapetek; Noriyuki Kodera; Melanie Koehler; Frank Lafont; Guillaume Lamour; Jessem Landoulsi; Valérie M. Laurent; Philippe Leclère; Malgorzata Lekka; Hongbin Li; Giovanni Longo; Arin Marchesi; Marion Mathelié-Guinlet; Gerald A. Meininger; Ioanna Mela; Pierre Emmanuel Milhiet; Ruben Millan-Solsona; Tea Mišić Radić; Michaël Molinari; Fernando Moreno-Herrero; Michael A. Nash; Olivier Noël; Yoo Jin Oh; Laia Pasquina-Lemonche; Shivprasad Patil; Patricia Pedraz; Ana Paula Pêgo; Thomas T. Perkins; Martin Pesl; Tri Thanh Pham; Laura Picas; Alessandro Podestà; Johannes Preiner; Jan Přibyl; Roger Proksch; Pierre Henri Puech; Alice L.B. Pyne; Manfred Radmacher; Lorena Redondo-Morata; Felix Rico; Wouter H. Roos; Robert Ros; Nuno C. Santos; Ugis Sarkans; Tilman E. Schäffer; Hermann Schillers; Zhifeng Shao; Delphine Sicard; Adam Cohen Simonsen; Igor Sokolov; Susana R. Sousa; Bjørn T. Stokke; Andreas Stylianou; Marek Szymonski; Florence Tama; Neil H. Thomson; Takayuki Uchihashi; Massimo Vassalli; Claude Verdier; Anthony Vial; Véronique Vié; Tomaso Zambelli; Renato Zenobi; Peng Zheng; Claire Valotteau

doi:10.1038/s41592-026-03214-7

A FAIR road to a bioAFM databank

Jean Luc Pellequer
, Sebastian Aguayo
, Andrea Alessandrini
, David Alsteens
, Toshio Ando
, Audrey Beaussart
, Michael Betton
, Timo Betz
, Kerstin G. Blank
, Simone Bovio
, Clément Campillo
, Claudio Canale
, Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera
, Filomena A. Carvalho
, Ignacio Casuso
, Guillaume Charras
, Marti Checa
, Liam Collins
, Adai Colom
, Luca Costa

Etienne Dague, Tanya E.S. Dahms, Pedro Jose de Pablo, Alexandra Delvallée, Simone Dinarelli, Lorna Dougan, Yves F. Dufrêne, Andra C. Dumitru, Yuri M. Efremov, Sofiane El-Kirat-Chatel, Paolo Facci, Georg E. Fantner, Amir Farokh Payam, Cécile Feuillie, Cristina Flors, Nancy Forde, Cécile Formosa-Dague, Gregory Francius, Clemens M. Franz, Kristian Franze, Ricardo Garcia, Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Núria Gavara, Marina I. Giannotti, Marco Girasole, Martin Guthold, George R. Heath, Céline Heu, Peter Hinterdorfer, Jamie K. Hobbs, Bart W. Hoogenboom, Sébastien Janel, Miklós Kellermayer, Petr Klapetek, Noriyuki Kodera, Melanie Koehler, Frank Lafont, Guillaume Lamour, Jessem Landoulsi, Valérie M. Laurent, Philippe Leclère, Malgorzata Lekka, Hongbin Li, Giovanni Longo, Arin Marchesi, Marion Mathelié-Guinlet, Gerald A. Meininger, Ioanna Mela, Pierre Emmanuel Milhiet, Ruben Millan-Solsona, Tea Mišić Radić, Michaël Molinari, Fernando Moreno-Herrero, Michael A. Nash, Olivier Noël, Yoo Jin Oh, Laia Pasquina-Lemonche, Shivprasad Patil, Patricia Pedraz, Ana Paula Pêgo, Thomas T. Perkins, Martin Pesl, Tri Thanh Pham, Laura Picas, Alessandro Podestà, Johannes Preiner, Jan Přibyl, Roger Proksch, Pierre Henri Puech, Alice L.B. Pyne, Manfred Radmacher, Lorena Redondo-Morata, Felix Rico, Wouter H. Roos, Robert Ros, Nuno C. Santos, Ugis Sarkans, Tilman E. Schäffer, Hermann Schillers, Zhifeng Shao, Delphine Sicard, Adam Cohen Simonsen, Igor Sokolov, Susana R. Sousa, Bjørn T. Stokke, Andreas Stylianou, Marek Szymonski, Florence Tama, Neil H. Thomson, Takayuki Uchihashi, Massimo Vassalli, Claude Verdier, Anthony Vial, Véronique Vié, Tomaso Zambelli, Renato Zenobi, Peng Zheng, Claire Valotteau

Functional Atomic Force Microscopy Group

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Abstract

In this Comment, we direct attention to initial efforts to establish a high-quality databank of atomic force microscopy (AFM) data: bioAFM-DB. We outline the state of this endeavor, its challenges, and potential courses of action.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Methods
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-026-03214-7
State	Accepted/In press - 2026

Funding

We would like to acknowledge the founding events of this work: COST Action TD 1002 AFM4BioNanoMed, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 812772, Project Phys2BioMed, and the AFMBioMed conference with the support of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) for hosting the first symposium on this topic.

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Pellequer, J. L., Aguayo, S., Alessandrini, A., Alsteens, D., Ando, T., Beaussart, A., Betton, M., Betz, T., Blank, K. G., Bovio, S., Campillo, C., Canale, C., Cartagena-Rivera, A. X., Carvalho, F. A., Casuso, I., Charras, G., Checa, M., Collins, L., Colom, A., ... Valotteau, C. (Accepted/In press). A FAIR road to a bioAFM databank. Nature Methods. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-026-03214-7

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AU - Campillo, Clément

AU - Canale, Claudio

AU - Cartagena-Rivera, Alexander X.

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AU - Casuso, Ignacio

AU - Charras, Guillaume

AU - Checa, Marti

AU - Collins, Liam

AU - Colom, Adai

AU - Costa, Luca

AU - Dague, Etienne

AU - Dahms, Tanya E.S.

AU - de Pablo, Pedro Jose

AU - Delvallée, Alexandra

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AU - Dougan, Lorna

AU - Dufrêne, Yves F.

AU - Dumitru, Andra C.

AU - Efremov, Yuri M.

AU - El-Kirat-Chatel, Sofiane

AU - Facci, Paolo

AU - Fantner, Georg E.

AU - Payam, Amir Farokh

AU - Feuillie, Cécile

AU - Flors, Cristina

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