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title: '2022-04-01: Meeting with Kevin meeting'
tags: [' squidpy', ' meeting', ' OME-NGFF', ' spatial', scverse]

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# 2022-04-01: Meeting with Kevin meeting 

*Attendees: Kevin, Isaac, Giovanni*


## Agenda

* CZI Grant
    * Contractor time
    * What would we spend the money on?
* Matrix API
* Cross language support
* Path forward for data spec

## Notes

* Multimodal
* Python/ cross platform
    * Javascript
        * Vitessce – Just what you need to read in
        * Do we want write support?
    * Zarr
        * How complicated does this get?
    * N5 (common for java libraries)
        * Unclear whether it's converging
* Existing usage of anndata for spatial
    * 
* Delta tissue (a bunch of data)
    * Standardizing on data
    * Analysis money for us, no dev money
* What can we spend money on
    * Could talk to Jeff Hammerbach?
* Other interested parties
    * Christian Tischer (Java)
* Course
    * Demo of analysis and file
    * ome-zarr-py: https://ome-zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
    * Is there an object?
        * Will follow up from Kevin
        * What is the logic that goes in the library
            * Subseting between objects
    * Can just start off with placing an anndata inside a file
    * napari plugin
        * Will get follow up from kevin
        * Can do segmentation images
* Basel Friday and Saturday
    * April 29-30th