2020-11-10

Attending:

Will, Petr, Sebastien, Frances, Jean-Marie, Dominik, Josh, Jason, Simon, June, Wilma, Andreas, Erin, Kevin, Melissa, Chris, Emil,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • Next release:
    • idr0088 - compound screen - some issues
    • idr0095 - rendering ongoing
  • Josh: aiming for 2 releases before end of year (this one plus one more)
  • Seb: new screen reader fix coming soon
• NGFF
  • HCS Status
    • Updated HCS metadata good to go - merge PRs etc.
    • Acquisition re-think (container vs metadata)
      • Hierarchy in ome-zarr (currently) vv not hierarchy in OMERO.
      • What do we want to show in clients? Hierarchy?
      • Propose staying close to OMERO model initially
  • I2K Status - chat last night
    • Tabular additions if possible for labels
    • Shortcuts if necessary - e.g. Mobi talking to n5
    • NB: EOSC & openscreen interest. Looking at our links
  • Metadata and Beyond
    • After plate and tabular data
    • BioHackathon Europe 2020 (cf. https://dev.idpcentral.org/registry)
    • BioSchemas & Google Search-indexing
      • production: Organism, Gene, Compound
      • draft: Phenotypes
      • Not yet: Cell Line
  • J-m: re: derived labels. Try to engage with RIKEN regarding BDML format within OME-Zarr. JRS: in the process of setting up a call to discuss with them.
• Releases
  • N/A
• SA
  • Issues with a PNG on Nightshade - Seb: BF fix
  • Need to schedule downtime to upgrade.
  • Seb: need someone to lead the upgrade
• Glencoe
  • More masks and conversions progress
  • Dealing with large numbers of masks
  • Looking at HCS support in bioformats2raw
  • Adding keys to labels for improved visualising, e.g. min/max values
  • Seb: seen https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/issues/60? Not yet.
• Community
  • Workshops listed in ‘ome’ calendar
  • June: looks good
  • 4DN calls scheduled (see e-mails)
  • Jason: OME joining 4DN project and Sanger project
    • setting up slacks, wikis etc. Will invite OME team.
  • June: virtual frontiers meeting RMS clashes with team meeting 1pm on 17th.
  • Jason: Move to 2pm or 3pm on Thurs? TBD

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)