MAY 19, 2017

The Center for Bio-Image Informatics, together with the iPlant Collaborative and recently established the Center for Multimodal Big Data Science and Healthcare, will be organizing a two day workshop on large scale image informatics for scientific applications, with an emphasis on bio-medical imaging. The workshop will be held at the UCSB campus on May 14-15. There will be a hands-on session with the BisQue Developers Team for module integration into Bisque. This workshop is supported in part by an NSF project and limited number of travel grants are available for graduate students, post-docs or early career researchers.

There will be a number of invited presentations on the workshop theme and also an opportunity for the participant to influence the future directions of image processing/analysis models for integration into the BisQue platform.

CBI is pleased to announce a new release of the BisQue system: 0.5.6. This release introduces a big update in the underlying system to support resource (images, packages, videos) composed of many files. This improvement allows BisQue to operate on images composed on many files in place, with no additional re-conversions. We can now support Tiff-Series and proprietary formats like Volocity and AndorIQ in-place. Insertion of such images has become much faster since we don't do any special processing on ingest. As usual we have some UI improvements and great new productivity features.