Dear microscopists,

we have organised an OMERO WORKSHOP for the beginning of October. This will be a good opportunity to get hands-on experience on all aspects of the OMERO image database, and how it can be used for the whole imaging workflow, i.e. data storage and administration, annotation, searching, export, visualisation, and importantly also image analysis, through interaction with established image analysis tools. The trainers will come directly from the OMERO development team in Dundee.

The workshop is going to be split into two parts:

Day 1 (Mon 3 Oct 2011, 10.00-17.00): General Users. Using OMERO for microscopy image handling, import, export etc. (see details below).
Day 2 (Tue 4 Oct 2011, 10.00-17.00): Advanced Users: Integration with image analysis tools (ImageJ / FIJI, Matlab, CellProfiler, ...)

The workshop is free of charge, but places are limited, so please register by email to me (m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk).

For those who don't know OMERO yet: OMERO is a microscopy image database, with a large range of additional functionality. In Imperial College, Bioinformatics Support Service offer OMERO to all College members, linked to a secure, backed-up image storage space and server-side processing capability. For more details, see OMERO Wiki on the BSS website (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/bioinfsupport/resources/data_management/omero).

Good imaging,

Martin

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The field of biological imaging has seen incredible advances due to new imaging techniques and molecular markers. These advances in data acquisition result in the creation of multidimensional biological images. How these images are to be managed, visualised and analysed remains an open challenge. A solution to this problem is the OMERO platform.

OMERO is a Java Enterprise application for visualisation, management, and analysis of biological image data. The software consists of the OMERO server which can be accessed by a number of different clients. The OMERO clients allow the scientist to remotely manage, view, annotate and measure multi-dimensional images from anywhere. OMERO can also be extended to support data analysis.

Imperial College London and the OMERO team are organising a 2 day training workshop to allow users, system administrators, and developers to learn more about the OMERO platform. The event will take place at the Imperial College training suite, with access to individual workstations and a server will be provided to all attendees.

Day 1: OMERO Basics: OMERO Client Overview
Day 1 is focused on providing an introduction to a range of tasks to using OMERO from getting data in, viewing your data, getting data out, and measuring with OMERO. The workshop will be run by OMERO and Imperial experts who will give personal tuition demonstrating the functionality of OMERO. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own images.

Day 2: Advanced usage, interfacing with analysis tools and administration; details depending on participants' interests