[ome-users] Imaris <-> Omero

[Chris Allan]

On 20 Jul 2011, at 19:05, Gregory Jefferis wrote:

> So do we assume that Bitplane/Imaris has purchased a commercial license for ICE?  I guess that is one way round the problem!

It's certainly possible, you'd have to ask Bitplane directly. The OME team hasn't specifically targeted any Imaris integration beyond OME-TIFF support.

> 
> Best,
> 
> Greg.
> 
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>> 	Christophe TREFOIS
>> 20 July 2011 13:41
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>> Dear Gregory,
>> 
>> I?m not sure if this can be done, but in v 7.3 of Imaris, their API is now through ICE as well.
>> In that case, a direct communication could maybe occur?
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> --
>> Christophe
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>> Dipl.-Ing. Christophe TREFOIS
>> PhD Student
>> Ing. Sys. Com. Dipl. EPF
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>> From: ome-users-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk [mailto:ome-users-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk] On Behalf Of Gregory Jefferis
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:57 AM
>> To: ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
>> Subject: Re: [ome-users] Imaris <-> Omero
>> 
>> Dear OME people,
>> 
>> Although open source software is the target of my personal development efforts, my lab still uses a mix of open and commercial closed source software.  In considering a transition to an image database system like Omero one major consideration is whether all of our software would be able to get convenient access to image (meta)data. It was recently pointed out to me that that the GPL license of the ICE framework used by Omero is a problem for any closed source application that wanted to talk to an Omero server via ICE:
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>> http://zeroc.com/licensing.html
>> 
>> I presume this would include Imaris.  Has anyone looked at this issue in detail?  Thoughts?  Workarounds?
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Greg.
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>> 	Gregory Jefferis
>> 20 July 2011 08:56
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>> Dear OME people,
>> 
>> Although open source software is the target of my personal development efforts, my lab still uses a mix of open and commercial closed source software.  In considering a transition to an image database system like Omero one major consideration is whether all of our software would be able to get convenient access to image (meta)data. It was recently pointed out to me that that the GPL license of the ICE framework used by Omero is a problem for any closed source application that wanted to talk to an Omero server via ICE:
>> 
>> http://zeroc.com/licensing.html
>> 
>> I presume this would include Imaris.  Has anyone looked at this issue in detail?  Thoughts?  Workarounds?
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Greg.
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>> 	Christophe TREFOIS
>> 19 July 2011 09:00
>> 
>> Dear Ome-users,
>> 
>> Has anybody of you managed to interface Imaris with Omero ?
>> I would like to import pictures for automatic processing directly into Imaris.
>> 
>> For now, the only way I see is through Imaris?s Matlab XT interface, but it seems rather tedious.
>> Since you?d need to go Omero -> Omero Matlab -> Imaris XT -> Imaris.
>> 
>> Any hints, tips, suggestions are welcome.
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> 
>> --
>> Christophe
>> ................................................................................
>> Dipl.-Ing. Christophe TREFOIS
>> PhD Student
>> Ing. Sys. Com. Dipl. EPF
>> 
>> <image.jpg>
>> Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
>> 
>> UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG
>> CAMPUS LIMPERTSBERG
>> 162a, avenue de la Fa?encerie
>> L-1511 Luxembourg
>> T +352 46 66 44 6124
>> F +352 46 66 44 6949
>> www.lcsb.lu
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