Roadmap
The planned direction of future development.
There are several projects underway in our laboratories that have recently matured.
The LOCI is continuing to develop Bio-Formats; see the roadmap for details.
The Swedlow Lab has focussed its efforts on development of OMERO, a Java Enterprise-based image data and metadata platform that includes for server and client applications. The roadmap for the project is available. We are currently releasing OMERO-Beta4.1, which provides enhanced import and export while building on our work in OMERO-Beta4.0 a major step in functionality, usability, and performance. OMERO-Beta4 provided a fully functional system for integrating large, diverse sets of image data, and provides both Java- and web-based client applications for uploading, viewing, and using data. Examples of the functionality available in OMERO-Beta4 are on the client pages.
We are also working on a number of enhancements to the OMERO platform to improve its performance and standardize programming interfaces. For mid-2010, as we head towards our 2010 OME User's Meeting in Paris, we are focussing our efforts on cleaning up a number of outstanding issues, fully releasing HCS functionality, and laying foundation for fully addressing analysis in OMERO. The results of this effort will be released as OMERO-Beta4.2.
The Goldberg Lab has developed a new image classification system known as WND-CHARM that uses a large suite of calculated features to enable automatic image classification.
