2020-11-24

Attending:

• Will, Petr, Josh, Jason, Simon, Wilma, David, Erin, Chris, Melissa, Kevin, Emil,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • Jason: several interesting new studies coming in
  • e.g. In-situ gene sequencing
• NGFF
  • ZarrReader - branches: not PRs yet
    • https://github.com/dgault/ZarrReader/tree/prototype
    • https://github.com/dgault/jzarr/tree/ome-zarr
    • Josh: testing locally. jzarr hard
    • Looking for Java support for I2K next week
  • HCS: solidifying & some workflow additions
    • To propose or not to propose
    • Few outstanding ome-zarr-py / omero-cli-py PRs
  • New spec home
    • New home of the spec
    • Some migration still needed, along with redirects
    • Feedback, comments concerns welcome
  • I2K update
    • Working through the program - Call with Tischi this morning
    • Time-slot & attendees
    • Intro, demos Java/Python/JavaScript (2 hours)
    • Then workshops in breakout rooms
    • Seb: If you’re going to talk about HCS, need refs/spec solid.
    • Josh: would be good to merge Draga’s contribution: code and spec
    • Jason: 4 hours is long. Good to have break at 2 hours
  • Microscopy Australia
    • Interesting in running an NGFF demonstrator in the new year. (Conceivably EM)
• Releases
  • Seb: Contributions from Glencoe going in
  • Tabular Data with ROIs - Good to see use cases/workflows
  • Josh: Python 3.9 now supported (needed for Mac Big Sur). Packages on conda

• SA

• Glencoe
  • Chris - see above
  • Interested to hear David’s experience of jzarr
• Community
  • OMERO workshop on Monday and Wednesday I2K 4 hours.
  • NGFF workshops x2 on Wednesday
  • McGill workshop 1hr - starting after this meeting
  • Seb: promoting on the website? Petr: will add retroactively.
  • JRS: good conversation with CMU-4DN. Dec 3rd-5th will be a consortium wide introduction. Starting data conversations (where, what)
    • Josh: Can see a path forward re: spatial indexes of n-d arrays
  • JRS: writing project spec for Sanger work

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)