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<div class="">We love OMERO-figure. It has become a central way we use OMERO and we believe it is an under appreciated tool that everyone should use for all their day to day imaging. We would like to see the OMERO team embracing this and putting a small amount
of effort in getting it even better. Please please please put these request high up on a priority list…<br class="">
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<div class=""><b class="">Motivation</b></div>
<div class="">Figure was developed to make it possible to make figures for papers directly from OMERO and bypassing illustrator and the like. </div>
<div class="">However, for us it has enabled an unintended additional use that we believe is more significant. It allows every time a user has an imaging session on a microscope to summarise the typical result of that session. It also allows a systematic record
of a medium scale screen, again summarising how the user thinks the data should be viewed. Viewing raw data from a screen is rather difficult in comparison. We have been using Zegami, as a visualisation tool that can organise and slice and dice the figures
at scale using rich n-dimensional meta-data of our choice including bioinformatics. </div>
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<div class="">The following are specific requests framed in general terms and have mostly been posted previously over an extended period by various members of my group and Micron in Oxford. David Pinto, Josh Titlow, MK Thompson will be at the next OMERO meeting
in Dundee and can discuss these points in more detail. </div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Development requests</b></div>
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<div class="">1) Make some small improvements to Figure so it is sufficient for making figures for papers (other than drawing diagrams and plots). e.g. scalable text and better text labels. Does not have to be extensive and complex. Just one labelling approach
that is good. </div>
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<div class="">2) Create a hierarchy of folders housing figures so that figures can be organised in a sensible way over time, at scale. </div>
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<div class="">3) Use some kind of tagging system, similar to Auto-tag (or repurpose the Auto-tag code) - extracting tags from the folder and figure names. </div>
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<div class="">4) Allow batch export of figures from pull down menus as well as CLI. At the moment we are pulling the figures from json files using our own bespoke python scripts. </div>
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<div class="">5) Allow more format of figure export especially .png</div>
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<div class="">6) Ideally export metadata with the figures including the tags and automate publishing of figure collections through Zegami with metadata (via .png and csv files). </div>
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<div class="">I welcome comments, clarifications, questions or counterpoints. </div>
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<div class="">with best regards</div>
<div class="">Ilan</div>
<div class=""><b class="">For transparency:</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">I am on the SAB of Zegami and on the SAB of OMERO-IDR</b></div>
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<div class="">p.s.If you would like to know more about Zegami, please look up. <a href="https://zegami.com/" class="">https://zegami.com/</a></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12px;" class="">____________________________________________________________________________</div>
<div style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b class="">Prof. Ilan Davis <a href="mailto:ilan.davis@bioch.ox.ac.uk" class="">ilan.davis@bioch.ox.ac.uk</a>
<a href="http://www.ilandavis.com" class="">http://www.ilandavis.com</a></b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Department of Biochemistry, The University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OXFORD OX1 3QU, UK</div>
<div style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Direct Office No: (44) (0)1865 613265 Office Fax: (44) (0)1865 613340</div>
<div style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Lab manager: Dr Darragh Ennis <a href="mailto:darragh.ennis@bioch.ox.ac.uk" class="">
darragh.ennis@bioch.ox.ac.uk</a> (44) (0)1865 613271 / 613272 </div>
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