We've also recently acquired an operetta and I'm trying to get data that has been exported from the Harmony database as "Columbus export (including images)" or "Index and images". Neither results in a dataset that can be imported in omero. Upon export I get a folder that has an xml file (index.idx.xml) with a lot of metadata, and all of the tiff files plus another folder that says "Assaylayout" . The files import into an omero project just fine, but most of the image specific metadata is gone, e.g. no channel information, pixel size is wrong, etc.
Because the images are tif files, they import using either the importer or insight directly. If I try to import them into a "Screen" the screen name appears, but the images end up as orphans.
I would happily contribute some datasets, but the qa only accepts image format files, and I think you need the xml file with the folder of images to make sense of the plate layout etc.
According to PE the naming scheme of the files in the folder is this:
r01c01f01p01rc1-ch1sk1fk1fl1.tiff where:
r=row, c=column, f=field, p=plane, rc=record, ch=channel, sk=timepoint (the remaining parts of the file name are currently not in use
, but they also say this:
Do not rely on image properties derived from image file names. The naming convention is subject to change without notice. Please see the meta information in the XML files for reliable data
