2025-04-15

Attending: Will, Josh, Frances, Melissa, Petr, Dom, Andreas, Kyle, Khaled, David, Erin, Jason, Kevin

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):

  • next release 3 new studies and fixes to broken images. Big release, expected end of the month
  • idr0164 fourth study from HDBR
  • idr0160 single big plate
  • idr0156 embryonic stem cells etc.
  • Next IDR meeting Wednesday 23rd 10am

• OMERO

• Bio-Formats

  • builds status: waiting on quote for hardware for Glencoe.
  • Data sync ongoing. 5 or 6 days to go. Weekly restart of Dundee servers keeps interrupting transfer.
    • Petr: this can be configured with sudo; it's a cron job

• NGFF

  • Working on an abstract for CoRDI: https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2025/call/ (deadline: Thursday)
  • ngff-zarr now supports sharding: https://forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekly-dev-update-thread/110810/11
    • More updates welcome, e.g. Zarr-pixel-buffer?
  • Hugging Face and storage: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/storage-limits e.g. 100 TB datasets (smaller datasets are free)
    • We could possibly direct users to store OME-Zarrs there?
    • Also https://github.com/mlcommons/croissant/pull/848 etc. Markup language for deep learning.

• GerBI

  • Lots of focus on CoRDI
  • Also looking at various new use cases (cellpainting, light sheet)
    • Whole-mouse cleared imaging datasets - interesting challenge for conversion/storage in OME-Zarr

• Glencoe

• Community

  • Updates to OME About and OME Teams
    • Comments or Edits welcome
    • Next: additional teams from #techdev and Commercial Partners
  • Training
    • Gearing up for OME2025 - 28th April

AOB

• Dundee systems
  • Passwords (Josh)
    • did not receive prompt to change
    • Melissa and Jason: also did not receive prompt
    • open tickets? Unclear.
    • Petr: was prompted by eduroam to change password. Then updated to use new password for MS outlook and elsewhere

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)