[ome-users] ome-users Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3 -- Importing legacy .mdb Zeiss databases

[Cornelissen, Frans [PRDBE]]

Hi,

We are facing the same need as Alex...
Having to import the individual .lsm files into OMERO is far from ideal,

Being able to use the .mdb would be great!

Tx,
Kind regards, 
Frans Cornelissen,
JnJ Pharma R&D IT

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Today's Topics:  4. Importing legacy .mdb Zeiss databases (Alexandre
Cunha)
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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:26:07 -0800
From: Alexandre Cunha <cunha at caltech.edu>
Subject: [ome-users] Importing legacy .mdb Zeiss databases
To: ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
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Hello,

I have sent the following question to the Bio-formats folks and thought
to also seek help here.

We are starting to move diverse proprietary databases (mainly Zeiss)
from one of the Biology labs here on campus to OMERO. A typical lab user
has a directory per project and a .mdb database file in that directory
that I believe refers to the many .lsm image files in that same
directory.

My question is: is there a way in OMERO to directly read the many .mdb
files 
and save each as a OMERO database (or project) ? We would like to avoid 
rebuilding each database and if possible store legacy databases
seamlessly in OMERO.

I appreciate receiving your suggestions.
Many thanks, Alex.