OMERO: Open Microscopy Environment

The Jackson Laboratory

Online

Mar 1 & 8, 2022

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Instructors: Erick Ratamero

Helpers: Dave Mellert

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General Information

OMERO is an open source client/server system written in Java for visualizing, managing, and annotating microscope images and metadata. This workshop will cover viewing your data, annotating, working with regions of interest, analyzing OMERO data using ImageJ and create figures for publication. The specific contents will be tailored to the participants, so that they can use the knowledge to their own research problems.

Who: The course is intended for users at all levels of knowledge, including people who have never used OMERO.

Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.

When: Mar 1 & 8, 2022. Add to your Google Calendar.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.). They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).

Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.

Contact: Please email susan.mcclatchy@jax.org or erick.ratamero@jax.org for more information.

Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.


Survey

Please be sure to complete this survey after the workshop.

Post-workshop Survey


Schedule

Day 1

09:00 Basic image management
10:15 Break
10:35 Viewing, analyzing and publishing images using OMERO plugins
12:00 END

Day 2

9:00 Using OMERO from external software
10:30 Break
10:50 Publishing with OMERO.figure
11:50 Post-workshop Survey
12:00 END

Setup

To participate in a workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.

We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.

Install the videoconferencing client

If you haven't used Zoom before, go to the official website to download and install the Zoom client for your computer.

Set up your workspace

Like other Carpentries workshops, you will be learning by "coding along" with the Instructors. To do this, you will need to have both the window for the tool you will be learning about (a terminal, RStudio, your web browser, etc..) and the window for the Zoom video conference client open. In order to see both at once, we recommend using one of the following set up options:

This blog post includes detailed information on how to set up your screen to follow along during the workshop.

Fiji and Omero

The base workshop content will require an installation of Fiji on the local machine, with the omero_ij plugin. See these installation instructions.

VPN

Please connect to Global Protect VPN if you’ve never done so. Questions? Please contact the IT help desk at 207 288 1414.