OMERO Workshop

University of Southern California
February 2019
Jason Swedlow

Outline

  • What is OME?
  • What is OMERO?
  • Workshop overview

OME: Interoperability

OMERO is a server with clients

Image Data - Read by Bio-Formats

  • Support for reading > 150 image formats
  • Read pixel data and metadata
  • Includes 5D images, HCS data, Tiled WSI images
  • Domains: biological, medical, general (tiff, png, etc.)

Metadata

  • Stored in a Relational Database
  • Acquisition metadata
  • User-added Annotations
  • ROIs / Segmentations

Search

  • Text and Annotations indexed with Lucene
  • Allows keyword searches

OMERO.tables

  • HDF5 tables for analysis results
  • Flexible columns

OMERO API

Python | Java | Matlab | R | C++

OMERO.web framework is extensible

OMERO.iviewer

OMERO.figure

OMERO.parade

Open with... Web apps

Integration

Today's workshop

Data organisation

Francis-data ≠ Ada-data
Francis-data similar to Ada-data

Each others data – read-annotate setup

Thank you