2022-08-09

Attending: Jason, June, Will, Petr, Josh, Tom, Seb, Frances, Wilma, Andreas, Kyle, David G., Melissa, Emil, Mina, Muhanad, Erin, Kevin

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • lots of testing new datasets & formats.
  • next release: idr0134 plant study ontology mapping
  • Seb: storage space still an issue
    • investigating new storage, performance issues
    • several new submissions are in OME-NGFF format which may offer a solution in future - we don’t host the data but “import” from remote
    • Jason: could move less critical datasets to free-up space
    • Josh: for more-frequently accessed data, cache will help performance
• OMERO:
  • OMERO.figure release soon (this week)
• Bio-Formats:
  • 6.10.1 patch release on Thursday
• NGFF (Josh)
  • FYI: ZEP2 (Sharding): https://zarr.dev/zeps/draft_zeps/
  • Java/Zarr chat (Aug. 2) summary
    • 5ish choices: jzarr, n5, netcdf-java, fork, new
      • next steps: code to show example questions
    • other levels of the same problem (codecs, s3-libraries, array libraries, “high-level” apis)
    • Seb: matrix of libs and maintainers, pros / cons?
• Glencoe:
  • “NGFF Converter” UI tool release coming.
    • All open-source. Builds will be signed etc.
    • Seb: useful for IDR submitters too.
  • NGFF import performance investigations, good to compare OMERO and OMERO plus.
• GerBI:
  • Tom: UI tool for using neural-net with OMERO
• Community
  • Holidays and Support
  • image.sc etc: OK to say “lots of team away - we’ll get back to you”
  • OME meeting - vision document nearly ready…
    • Virtual meeting
  • NIH virtual workshop in September to highlight importance of imaging data
  • Josh: Volume EM community interested in moving to OME-NGFF

AOB

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