[ome-users] .mrc file import into omero

[Brian Loranger]

Hi Dan and Bjorn,

OMERO officially only supports about 30 of the Bio-formats file types  
and the list of those formats can be found at: http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/ImporterFormats 
  and is also mentioned in our FAQ at https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/faq 
  .

The reason for this is primary one of testing - because of the diverse  
range of metadata that can be included in the various file formats,  
we're pretty cautious about including everything before we have a  
chance to test it.

In the past OMERO has been pretty light-microscopy centric, but  
happily EM data is one of the areas we're now looking at. Some model  
changes probably need to be made to fully support EM metadata, and I  
wouldn't expect us to see those formats officially supported till  
we've gone ahead with those changes.

In the current release of the importer, there's no easy way for the  
end use to go in and 'turn on' formats for testing, but I've already  
submitted a change to the source code to allow you to do that in  
upcoming releases (the required 'importer_readers.txt' file for  
turning on file formats will be in the importer's config folder). In  
the mean time, if you're interested in turning on formats, you'll need  
to extract the importer jar, tweak the importer_readers.txt file, and  
jar it up again.

I should mention that the process of testing these formats is just  
that - experimental, and you should probably be familiar with a bit of  
java code to get things going.

Cheers,

Brian

On 10 Jul 2009, at 11:10, Daniel James White wrote:

> Hi Bjorn,
>
> Well, the point is that bio-formats reads the electron microscopy
> format .mrc
> but OMERO.import does not.
>
> I dont know if its supposed to or not,
> or if there is some way i can add support by turning it on on the
> server,
> or by working out how to do it and submitting a patch.
>
> Users don't want to convert gigabytes of .mrc files to tiff before
> they put them in OMERO
> and lose all the meta data in the process!
>
> Maybe its a more general question....
> does OMERO.import aim to work for all data file types that bio-formats
> can read, or just a subset of those?
>
> cheers
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Björn Quast wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> I guess you mean .mrc files from imod (http://bio3d.colorado.edu/
>> imod/). Perhaps you can save them as one multilayer tif-file with
>> imagej or export the layers as single tif-files by using the command
>> line, mrc2tif <mrc-file> <basename_for_tif-files>.
>>
>> You can reconvert the tifs to mrc with tif2mrc. But I am not sure if
>> this all helps you, if you want to keep your metadata with the mrc-
>> files.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Björn
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am Freitag, 10. Juli 2009 11:26:20 schrieb Daniel James White:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I see bio-formats reads .mrc files from electron microscopy,
>>> but OMERO.import doesnt seem to like them?
>>> They are not in the list of acceptable file types.
>>>
>>> Can i add .mrc somehow?
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
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>> Universität Bonn
>> Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Ökologie
>> 53121 Bonn
>> Tel.: 0228/735758 email: bquast at evolution.uni-bonn.de
>>
>
> Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
> Senior Microscopist / Image Visualisation, Processing and Analysis
> Light Microscopy and Image Processing Facilities
> Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
> Pfotenhauerstrasse 108
> 01307 DRESDEN
> Germany
>
> +49 (0)15114966933 (German Mobile)
> +49  (0)351 210 2627 (Work phone at MPI-CBG)
> +49  (0)351 210 1078 (Fax MPI-CBG LMF)
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> Included
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Brian Loranger
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Division of Gene Regulation and Expression
University of Dundee
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