Hi Stuart,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>-Curtis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Smith, Stuart C <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Stuart.C.Smith@pfizer.com" target="_blank">Stuart.C.Smith@pfizer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks in advance,</span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:ctrueden.wisc@gmail.com" target="_blank">ctrueden.wisc@gmail.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Curtis Rueden<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 June 2009 22:19<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ome-devel@lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk" target="_blank">ome-devel@lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ome-devel] .Flex File integration</span></p>
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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 (<a href="http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html#formats" target="_blank">http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html#formats</a>)
lists all supported formats, with blue-highlighted entries also supported by
the OMERO server.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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-Curtis</p>
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<p>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?</p>
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<p>If you feel this conversation is best carried on outside of this forum,
please feel free to email me directly.</p>
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<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
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