2023-03-21

Attending: Will, Dom, J-M, Frances, Khaled, Andreas, Chris, Melissa, Seb, Kyle, Erin, Kevin, Richard, June,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • ongoing submissions - image validation issues
  • NGFF conversion - resolving issues
  • Search: API: search by value only (any Key)
  • Search: improve display of Publication Title in mapr without including it in the Description, so we can index/search by Description
• OMERO
  • OMERO.server 5.6.7 out
  • OMERO.web 5.19.0 out
  • Fixing OMERO.insight GHA to release 5.8.1
  • A few repos (python) are failing build e.g. omero-marshal. This will require some TLC
  • JM: Will try Josh’s script to scan repos and report on versions/issues. Over 100 python repos!
  • Andreas: release announced on website
  • JM: need to plan upgrade of merge-ci to new Jenkins. Might need to shut down merge-ci for a few days.
  • upgrade will include Java 11
• Bio-Formats (David)
  • ZarrReader PR last week, driven by IDR datasets. Merge and release in next few days.
  • New API for chunk reading in Bio-Formats
• NGFF (Will)
  • Tables PR nearly done. Some discussion of whether the spec should include tables etc.
  • Remote loading of AnnData ongoing
  • External PRs for Scaling in ome-zarr-py
  • Collections spec discussion
  • JM: Josh has PR to use readthedocs for ngff site
• GerBI
  • TiM
• Glencoe (Chris):
  • Highly parallel work in server. Documention update to add ways of handling
• Community - Richard discussing training with Petr around September

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)