tags: Tuesday —

2025-02-11

Attending: Josh Moore, Petr Walczysko, Frances Wong, Khaled Mohamed, Jean-Marie Burel, Will Moore, Chris Allan, Dominik Lindner, Kevin Kozlowski, Kyle Balis-West, Melissa Linkert

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR Frances: NFDI All Hands presentation on IDR last week. Interest in submitting data.
  • New release with idr0159 and idr0165 in prep. Release following EBI upgrade (week after next)
• OMERO
  • Server release in coming weeks to include Bio-Formats 8.1.0
  • omero-server build fixed
  • conda fixed
  • Andreas: fix for saving rendering settings for images with lots of channels. PR soon…
• Bio-Formats
  • 8.1.0 released last Wednesday
  • reviewing open PRs and responding to authors
  • Triaging ome-model https://docs.google.com/document/d/1twj5KHNZsOSkvDYqTtGdegor8IIwvcD2xOTa376i7Uc/edit?tab=t.0
• NGFF
  • Upcoming call: Feb 21st: on future calls but also 0.6 and 1.0
  • Work on preprint from the NGFF hackathon (Where to publish a Zarr paper?)

    • Zips incl. in neuroglancer. ZEP8 proposal e.g. data.zarr

      zip

  • Zarr extensions work to allow extension of the spec (this week?!)
  • EOSC “challenge” with a June deadline (Tabled)
  • Tools table revamp (esp. web viewers): does any web viewer support all features of the spec?
  • Will: https://github.com/will-moore/ome-zarr.js using this in OMERO.figure

• GerBI

• Glencoe
  • omero.client Java - handling large numbers of clients in one process. Improvements in microservices. Blitz repo proposals soon…
• Community
  • Karolinska outreach zoom workshop tomorrow. Brief intro followed by students working in breakout rooms, working from demo videos.

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)