Investigate integration of Biosensors with OMERO

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With u-track 2.2 allowing the integration of u-track with OMERO 4.4. and OMERO 5.0 on the edge of being released, we can now consider the integration of another software packaged by the Danuser lab with OMERO: Biosensors. This package processes biosensors time-lapse movies into ratiometric images and thus is greatly complements FLIMFIT for the FRET community.

The software infrastructure and the interface is common with the u-track one so that this task would immediately benefit from the u-track integration. This package also brings new challenges:

• on the client side, the necessity of defining temporary output, i.e. not to be stored onto the server. The biosensors processing is divided into atomic steps which are extremely useful for debugging the processing. However, most intermediate data does not need to be stored. Only masks and finale ratiometric images are worth storing for production.

• on the server side, new ratiometric images are created which could be linked to initial objects or even correction images/datasets