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tags: meeting, spatial, scverse, cellxgene, SOMA
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# 2022-08-24: OME-NGFF + SOMA meeting
*Attendees:* Ambrose Carr, Luca Marconato, Kevin Yamauchi, Isaac Virshup, Giovanni Palla
## Agenda
* Present projects
* OME-NGFF/ SpatialData
* SOMA
* Questions
- where in the data stack does SOMA live? Will CZI be storing all data?
- Generation of raw data
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- Is it possible to point the SOMA query engine to outside data sources?
- Yes, but they will have a host copy
- Their hosted – for holding standardized schemas
- does SOMA have a plan for image data, polygons, points, etc.?
- Is there is a pathway for interoperatiblity (what "interoperability" means depends on the answer to the previous questions)?
- [ac] What's the point of intersection between OME-NGFF and SOMA? `accumulate`?
* Problems/ overlaps
## Notes
* Luca presents OME-NGFF
* Qs:
* Mask first, then polygons? (yes)
* Operations
* Queries on this data
* does it need to live on czi cloud
* sets of variables need merging
* Controlled set of variable on CZI cloud makes this easier
* tile shapes
* Performance work
* SOMA model
* There is an composition of arrow buffers which maps to a tiledb object
* So other sources could be supported
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