2021-10-19

Attending: Will, Dom, Petr, David, Khaled, Josh, Melissa, Jason, Wilma, Andreas, Jean-Marie, Andreas, Erin, Chris, David Stirling, Kevin, June (apologies - late due to internet issues)

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR:
  • NIH, Allen Institute call. Usage, access questions, “success stories”
• NGFF:
  • Final version of OME-NGFF Paper submitted, including editor’s final edits.
  • Will: pages of discussion on NGFF issue 31 (collections). Have something close enough that can start implementing.
    • The core is quite simple (just collection of paths) and covers the omero-cli-export need and can then be viewed in vizarr.
    • Even with just that requirement there are ongoing discussions. List v. dictionary, etc. Hierarchy of collections.
  • Dom/Rendering: Discussing the potential spec on the cli-render plugin repository.
    • https://github.com/ome/omero-cli-render/issues/55
    • J-m: LUT are a potentially problematic issue.
    • Will: increasing the vibility of the issue?
    • J-m: will escalate after some internal discussion, look at other tools, BDV, etc.
  • Josh: transformations spec v0.4 nearing completion, driven by community
    • implementations in Mobie and napari
• Releases
  • Security release last week
  • Well recieved by users/customers
• Glencoe
  • Upgrading customers
  • Internal meeting prep
• Community
  • Report from NIH/Allen Meeting
    • Image data discussion - ~ 30 participants, journals etc
    • Good acceptance of OME and OME-NGFF
    • Lots of good will
  • Demo 4DN next Tuesday meeting, using idr0101 and nucleome browser
  • Spatial Transcriptomics -> Imaging movement. More data sharing

AOB

• Next week, Demo from Jian Ma’s group, integration of idr101 with Nucleome Browser (5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)