file importer

OMERO is an image database application consisting of a server and several clients, the most important of which are the web client and Insight java application.

Metadata are extracted from images that have been imported (either using the Insight client, or directly from the filesystem), and this is accessible for search. A standardised hierarchy of Project > Dataset > Image in which image thumbnails can be viewed, combined with group membership, tagging, and attachment of results and other files gives a powerful framework for organising scientific image data. Images can also be analysed server-side or client-side within the base OMERO application or one of its many extensions.

OMERO has APIs for extension in multiple languages: java, python, C++ and MATLAB; and such extensions have easy access to the image data and metadata in the database

The purpose of this plugin is to create a text file with a list of files from Gatan’s 3View montage image stacks. This text file can then be used to automatically import all the images into TrakEM2, as they are, stored in the original directories.