Douglas Russell

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📅 Years active: 2014 to 2014

Biography

Douglas is a Software Developer working as a part of the Open Microscopy Environment Consortium, based in The Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Douglas Russell joined the OME project in May, 2012 as a software developer embedded in a microscopy/biological group at the University of Oxford. His remit is to promote and improve OMERO in-the-field and to develop useful applications that extend or make use of OMERO. Douglas has an MEng in Cybernetics & Computer Science from the University of Reading and has nearly 10 years of research and teaching experience mostly in the University of Oxford's, Department of Computer Science. He is currently working on web applications and scripting for OMERO. His current areas of interest including distributed computing, computer security, design patterns and interface design. Douglas has a long history as an open source software user and contributor stretching back to the turn of the century when he was a developer of Gentoo Linux. Douglas also enjoys reading, cooking, skiing, snowboarding, trekking and visiting foreign cultures whenever he gets the opportunity.

— biography from FOSDEM 2014
https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/speaker/douglas_russell/

Conferences

1 known conferences

👥 FOSDEM 2014 📅 01 Feb 2014

🎤 Open Microscopy Environment
01 Feb 2014 show details

The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) is an open-source software framework for addressing informatics challenges in biological imaging and analysis: proprietary file formats, lack of storage, and analysis facilities and standards for sharing image data and results. The Java-based OMERO client-server platform and its model-based architecture is applicable to a range of imaging domains, including light and electron microscopy, high-content screening, and recently into applications using non-image data from clinical and genomic studies.

Despite significant advances in biological imaging and analysis, major informatics challenges remain unsolved: file formats are proprietary, storage and analysis facilities are lacking, as are standards for sharing image data and results. The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) is an open-source software framework developed to address these challenges [1]. OME has three components—an open data model for biological imaging; standardised file formats (OME-TIFF) and software libraries for file conversion (Bio-Formats [2]); and a software platform for image data management and analysis (OMERO [3]). In this presentation, we discuss the design and use of OMERO.

The Java-based OMERO client-server platform [3] comprises an image metadata store, an image data repository, visualization and analysis by remote access, enabling sharing and publishing of image data. OMERO.grid [4] facilitates distributed computing including scripting facility for image processing. OMERO.grid manages processes across nodes, providing distributed background processing, log handling, and several other features, using ZeroC’s IceGrid framework [5]. Several third-party applications use the OMERO API (e.g. image-based searching, tracking and automatic image tagging; sophisticated image analysis modules [6]). OMERO’s model-based architecture has enabled its extension into a range of imaging domains, including light and electron microscopy, high-content screening, and recently into applications using non-image data from clinical and genomic studies [7].

Our next version, OMERO-5 improves support for large datasets, and reads images directly from their original file format, allowing access by third-party software. OMERO and Bio-Formats run the JCB DataViewer [8] online scientific image publishing system and other institutional image data repositories [9], [10].

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