[ome-devel] .Flex File integration

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Stuart,

OMERO Beta 4.1, due later this month, will feature support for reading Flex
files. As I said before, OMERO provides limited support for high-content
screening, in that it can maintain your data's screen-plate-well structure,
but we anticipate expanding the HCS features in a future release.

I am forwarding your message to the OME developer mailing list, as the OME
developers will be the best ones to elaborate further on Flex support in
OMERO.

-Curtis

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Smith, Stuart C
<Stuart.C.Smith at pfizer.com>wrote:

>  Hi Curtis, firstly I appoligise for the very long delay in replying to
> the below email, but the OME evaluation was put on hold, but after doing
> further reading on the “Bio-Formats” product, if I am reading it correctly
> it could add “.flex” file support to “OME Server/Client”.  Is this correct?
> If so, how can it be implemented & are there any limitations on the .flex
> file support?  or have I completely miss understood the product?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> *From:* ctrueden.wisc at gmail.com [mailto:ctrueden.wisc at gmail.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Curtis Rueden
> *Sent:* 11 June 2009 22:19
> *To:* Smith, Stuart C
> *Cc:* ome-devel at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
> *Subject:* Re: [ome-devel] .Flex File integration
>
>
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> Sorry for the confusion. The Bio-Formats library supports the Flex format,
> so it is only a matter of time before that support is integrated into the
> OMERO system. For reference, the Bio-Formats web site (
> http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html#formats) lists all supported
> formats, with blue-highlighted entries also supported by the OMERO server.
>
> It is my understanding that an upcoming release of the OMERO.importer
> client will allow users to toggle which formats are enabled. This would
> allow you to "turn on" support for Flex within OMERO, with the caveat that
> any such manually enabled formats have NOT been well tested with the OMERO
> system, and you may experience quirks or problems.
>
> Regarding more thoroughly tested Flex support, I believe it will come at
> the same time as many of the planned high-content screening improvements to
> the OMERO system. We recently reprioritized some features due to feedback at
> this year's OME European Users meeting, and so I am not certain of the
> timeline for the HCS improvements, but they are definitely still planned.
>
> -Curtis
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Smith, Stuart C <
> Stuart.C.Smith at pfizer.com> wrote:
>
> Afternoon,  we were hoping to evaluate OME within our organisation to see
> if it aided our Scientists, but after setting up the server (windows) and
> installing clients on several peoples PC, we were surprised to find that
> .flex files were not supported, despite being advised otherwise in the form
> of a conversation between someone within my organisation and someone
> associated with OME.  Are they any plans to support .flex? or is this a
> restriction imposed by Perkin Elmer? If so, is there scope for us to
>  implement .flex file support internally within our own organisation? or if
> we made contributed in some way to the development of OME, would that clear
> the path for .flex file support within our OME setup?
>
>
>
> If you feel this conversation is best carried on outside of this forum,
> please feel free to email me directly.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> Stuart
>
>
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