[ome-devel] extending OMERO

[Stephen Taylor]

Hi,

We are planning to extend OMERO to be able to support our zoomable image and query interface called PivotViewer (for details see http://www.cbrg.ox.ac.uk/data/pivotviewer/intro.shtml) or to view it in action, see the YouTube movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDOPpRo7KM).

We have 3 main goals:

1) Visualise OMERO projects by :
	i)  Generating indices for PivotViewer by doing an export of metadata (possible from the HDF5 tables) and images from the OMERO database.
	ii) Exporting the images + metadata on the fly.
2) Use the results of filtering operations to run OMERO.scripts and see the results in PivotViewer.
3) Use the results of filtering operations to be able to annotate back to the OMERO database. So for example, I might choose a subset of images that I think are badly stained and tag them as 'stained=bad' or similar.

I am trying to pull together enough technical information to define how much work would be required to do this as part of a grant application. Would anyone on this list be able to help? 

Also, if any developers are interested in collaborating on this project please let me know!

Kind regards and thanks,

Steve
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Head of Computational Biology Research Group 
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine 
University of Oxford  
www.cbrg.ox.ac.uk