2025-04-01

Attending: Will, Petr, Dom, JM, Josh, Frances, Chris, Khaled, Andreas, Erin, Kyle, Kevin, David, Seb,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR Frances:

  • EBI microscopy course this week
  • Helping OME-Zarr conversions from submitters
  • IDR to BIA submissions via Globus - testing new workflow for new non-Zarr submissions

• OMERO

  • OMERO 5.6.15 release - planned for tomorrow
  • OMERO.web - looking at the next release
  • Numpy 2 support
    • OME CI upgraded to use Python 3.11
    • JM: will do a final test in collab notebook

• Bio-Formats Seb:

  • Infrastructure & development update posted on image.sc
  • Backlog on hold for now
  • Looking at alternative places to run ci tests
  • Future file submissions should be public

• NGFF Josh:

  • NGFF weekly dev update . Hope to get others to contribute. What frequency? What updates from OME team?
    • FLIM discussions with companies. Submit sample data.
    • 0.6.dev.1 new branch for RFC-5
  • Viewer status discussions in TechDev meetings.
    • Planning new React viewer built on viv
  • geo.json to spatialdata
  • Will: ome-zarr-py Zarr v3 is now green

• GerBI Josh:

  • TIM last week. Lots of new data.

• Glencoe Chris:

  • Bio-Formats testing discussions ongoing
  • Back from ABRF meeting last week, off to Bio-IT meeting this week (presenting and sponsoring with booth): https://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/data-management#2 (Marc Bruce, Erin and Jason)

• Community Petr:

  • EBI-EMBL course this week
  • Discussed workshops at OME2025 (Petr, JM, Will, Jason attending)

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)