2012-11-13 Tuesday Meeting
Dundee: Gus, Simon, Elwood, Blazej, Kenny, Mark, Petr, Jason, Helen, Will, Andrew, Chris Remote: Colin, Melissa, Stick, Andreas, Josh, Liza, Sebastien, Carlos, Douglas, Mark
Notes - 2:30pm Start
Dundee: Gus, Simon, Elwood, Blazej, Kenny, Mark, Petr, Jason, Helen, Will, Andrew, Chris Remote: Colin, Melissa, Stick, Andreas, Josh, Liza, Sebastien, Carlos, Douglas, Mark
Accepting minutes from last meeting
- 14:35 UK with skype fun.
- Jason read them.
- None
Glencoe Update - 14:36 UK
- Chris: Background work going on with the API (Carlos & Chris). Bulk annotations work. Bring Will in when we have things panned out.
Satellite Update (every month)
- Jason: Job ad for Project Admin has gone through. Cover admin aspects, plan meetings, standup docs ready etc. Plan dev meetings, ASCB.
- Jason: Satellite presentation in next few weeks, FLIM processing? Sardinia?
Australia visit [Jason] - 14:50 UK
- Jason: eResearch.
- Australia will make research cloud available at the beginning of 2013 for whole Australia (national strategy), 2CPU 8GB storage starting point.
- Series of funded projects incl. Monash & Griffith projects with OMERO. Dropbox pulling data from microscopes + annotation and analysis. Publication at the national level - Griffith OMERO Catalogue - WebClient
- No more funding until 2014.
- How do we retain usage?
- Sebastien: Did they switch to other software or did they not use anything?
- Jason: 2nd option, MyTardis: file manager / storage
- Jason: 2 things that accelerated things, scaled analysis, interest in tracking (sebastien). Automatic tagging (douglas).
- Jason: Image slides, not cells. 8 sections of mouse brain and imaged. Queensland brain institute, ims hdf file, 8gb of data in workstation. Dev wrote python, read data and dump as ome-tiff and built tools on top of that. Good informatics team. Lots of hardware! Potential FS testing site. Neuroscience application, can it be rolled in to 4.5 list?
- Josh: email from Jake Carroll asking for FS testing. Next month and pass it off to them. Preview testing phase.
- Jason: approaching one of those events where our understanding of data is leap-frogged (faster cameras, slides. Previously 3 hours, newer one: 15 mins)
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Jason: New slide stack design.
- “Seen you before, but those slides are great”
- Makes Jason look like a sales guy! “If I hadn’t seen the science talk I’d have thought you were a sales guy”
- Barrier: 150 TB of data has to go in. (i.e. all our datas)
- Jason: Just put the good stuff in.
- Will: MyTardis integration. Jason good things to bring up/discuss for future direction.
- Jason: running OMERO on their cloud. Possibility of setting an OMERO demo server for Australia/South Pacific?
ASCB Booth Planning [Jason] - 15:06
- Andrew, Colin, Chris, Jason & Wilma to discuss.
Any other business (<5 mins)
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GRE/OME coffee meetup strategy [Jason]
- joint talks? Geoff
- Chris: get involved in other activities in addition to changing coffee
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FigureJ [Josh]
- New plugin for ImageJ @ Will, uses bioformats (loci) plugin to open images and layout in figure format, overlay, scalebars. More interactive, same work flow, getting stuff ready for publication. Doubt its coming from OMERO, IJ1 / IJ2 upgrade issue.
- Will: Jean-Marie and I looked at it.
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GRE/OME coffee meetup strategy [Jason]
Done - 15:10
Actions
- Jason: Satellite presentations, FLIM / Sardina catchup.