Best approach to updating support for GE INCell?

[carl_brown]

Hi All,

Can anyone help me determine the best way to update support for the GE INCell, OME/Bioformat reader? Even though there is a lot of information online (e.g. the links below), it's not clear to me how to proceed. At this point, I am looking for advice. Who is the real, best person to contact? Likewise, what kind of development would be most beneficial?

I work for GE and could potentially provide the updated XML schema for incell's metadata file ("XDCE") as well as details about the way we're using TIFF tags.

Alternatively, I could help update InCellReader.java at
https://github.com/openmicroscopy/biofo ... eader.java

Thanks in advance for your advice,
Carl Brown

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... adata.html
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... -1000.html

[hflynn]

Hi Carl,

There is info about contributing to the project in our contributing documentation - basically you are very welcome to submit a pull request on GitHub for us to review. The most helpful thing would be to identify a problem with the current support and submit a fix for that specific issue.

As well as the documentation for the format support, you may also find the developer documentation on Using Bio-Formats and Writing file format readers helpful, if you haven't found these already.

If you have any questions not covered by the documentation at present, please feel free to ask more specific questions here, we are currently reviewing and updating our developer documentation and any feedback from people trying to contribute from outside the main team is always valuable.

If you have sample files you can share with us, someone can PM you with details of an FTP server address.

Thanks,

Helen