2020-11-03
Attending:
Will, Dominik, Frances, Petr, Jean-Marie, Josh, Sebastien, Simon, Wilma, Kevin, Jason, Melissa, Erin, Emil, Chris,
Start: 2:00 pm UK
Project Status
(2-3 minutes each)
  - IDR
    
      - Frances: busy with CSHL meeting (Wed-Fri)
 
      - prod90 release post conference
        
          - idr0088: compound screen. Issues with compounds to be reviewed
 
          - idr0095: e. coli study
 
        
       
    
   
  - NGFF
    
      - HCS status
        
          - Ongoing specification changes - well metadata and updating plate metadata
 
          - Next focus: multiple fields (and acquisitions) this week.
 
          - Demos, freeze, I2K
            
              - Make demo videos - meeting times tricky.
 
              - Aim to freeze spec end of next week
 
              - ‘tabular’ data - initial support for user-defined key-value pairs for labels.
 
              - J-m: have example notebook that would be useful.
 
            
           
        
       
      - Call Follow-ups
        
          - Monash: upcoming PR for label classes
 
          - Marseille: issue for meshes
 
          - Janelia: neuroglancer/n5 scaled data - UI, website, and especially metadata: 
"multiscales": [ { "datasets": [ { "path": "s0", "transform": { "axes": [ "z", "y", "x" ], 
        
       
      - Community Call feedback
        
          - Simon: not too many clear actions, but good to sync up with the community.
 
          - J-m: message to not lose the Java community
 
          - JRS: UK Volume EM meeting trying to decide how to build national center. EMPIAR has a new grant, and they intend to support N5. (FIB-SEM, 3D tomography) “cloud-competent streaming format”
 
          - Seb: interacting with actors more actively (compared to previous model iterations).
 
          - Will: we should mine the notes for actions and show being proactive. Chris: certainly aware of who to talk to in the future.
 
          - Will: updates to bioformats2raw? Josh: yes we should keep it in sync.
 
          - Simon: for i2K? Chris: not our deadline, but Glencoe needs it soon.
 
          - Melissa: starting this week (incl. raw2ometiff). Can schedule time to talk it through.
 
          - Seb: fairly sane version early next week. We’ll ping when it starting to slow down.
 
        
       
    
   
  - Releases
    
  
 
  - SA
    
      - JD trying to combine support contracts between OME & NPSC.
 
    
   
  - Glencoe
    
      - bioformats2raw with HCS
 
      - filtering millions of rows with OMERO.tables to get IDs for showing in pathviewer
 
      
    
   
  - Community
    
      - Josh: are we signing up for an I2K tutorials? (Twitter feedback)
        
          - limited spaces / competitive
 
          - All: have a look at I2K schedule
 
        
       
      - GBI - 4th week of Jan proposal for workshop
 
      - Request from Lausanne for workshop
 
      - Jason: UKRI funding call for data-sciences training
 
    
   
AOB
(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)
Main Topic
(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)