2022-09-20

Attending: Will, Petr, Jean-Marie, Frances, Khaled, David, June, Seb, Andreas, Melissa, Josh, Muhanad, Kevin, Chris, Wilma, Kyle, Erin

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances):
- prod110 scheduled for release: idr0141. Just needs release date
- Phase 1 of search will be included. Stress testing looked good today. Will be tagged and released ready for deployment on idr-next
- FIRE testing ongoing
OMERO
Bio-Formats (David):
- minor release on 6th October
- improvements to Bio-Formats testing
NGFF (Josh):
- goofys plans:
  - will try to mount 3rd-party s3 bucket to allow import with ZarrReader
- bioformats2raw.layout
  - Java looking good, Python updates, JavaScript less clear.
  - vizarr or ome-ngff-validator or something else?
    - https://github.com/hms-dbmi/vizarr/issues/149
    - Move to vitessce? Plugin system?
- Community call: two times October 5-6th(ish)
- #CZIOpenSci meeting & bioconductor
  - R support for reading zarr
- Zarr V3 status update (also 2.13.0)
  - feedback assessed - publication to come
- Virtual data management meeting
  - Hosted by Allen cell science
  - Good community support for NGFF
GerBI
Glencoe
- SBI2: presentations, poster etc.
- bioformats2raw 0.5.0 release soon
Community
- 1hr consultation in Edinburgh - fixing dates around early October

(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)