OMERO and ImageRails + SDCube

[Thorondor]

see:
http://www.semanticbiology.com/home
and
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v8/ ... .1600.html

to me the SDCube approach sounds interesting and very flexible.

I quote from the paper:
"Although the SDCube data group ‘raw’ can store image data, we are in the process of integrating ImageRail with the open microscopy environment remote objects (OMERO) image server. Thus, ImageRail currently stores TIFF files alongside SDCubes and not within them. OMERO provides powerful tools for processing and organizing images, is used widely in open-source and commercial image management applications and OME-TIFF has found wide acceptance as a file standard for biological microscopy."

So I just wonder how the intergration of ImageRail into OMERO is going on or if there are recent plans about this?

first post!

[jrswedlow]

Hi-

Thanks, and good point.

In general, our plans and priorities are available at http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/roadmap

Sorger's group has built ImageRails and SDCubes. In general, we start supporting new formats when we have good examples of data in that format. If you have some, we'd be more than happy to take a look at it.

Note that SDCubes is really a data transport format, although it can in principle do much more. For OMERO to use SDCubes natively, we'd need to show that data access and I/O was fast enough enough to keep up with the scales we often work on (10's to 100's of users, >1000's of datasets).

We'd welcome contributions from anyone who has SDCube data.

Cheers,

Jason