Document `spora` suit of OME-Zarr use cases

[lubianat]

A bit unsure on where to note in the website, but it is a nice use:

https://github.com/bunnelab/spora-io loads data with OME-Zarr (a tool)

https://spora.epfl.ch/docs-data.html has a nice data model which includes OME-Zarr (perhaps in ecosystem next to SpatialData)

It is also a huge collection of files in the format which uses OME-Zarr (https://spora.epfl.ch/datasets.html)

Got to the suite via the very recent Nature paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10884-y

(congrats to the team!)

Would @johannwenckstern @bvquerfurth have thoughts on how we could document your work here?

[bvquerfurth]

Hi Tiago,

Thank you - and to the whole NGFF community - for all the standardization work. We have been using OME-Zarr and the tools around it extensively when building our dataset collection. They were extremely useful for us when building spora. 

I agree that spora could be nice a example of the OME-Zarr ecosystem in practice. I'm not yet very familiar with the NGFF resources docs, but if it fits, we'd be glad to see spora featured on the ecosystem, tools, (and viewers) resource pages.

Happy to discuss in a short meeting, or I can join one of the upcoming community calls, whichever works best for you.

[lubianat]

Thanks, @bvquerfurth, glad to know! I think I have the material to find the place for it. Feel free to chime in the community calls anyways!

We will probably use spora as an example here and there, it is a nice demonstration of impact. Cheers.