OMERO.editor

OMERO.editor is an editing tool for scientists to record and manage their experimental metadata. This tool is a stand-alone application and saves files as XML files. These can subsequently be used to annotate images in OMERO, using the Insight client. OMERO.editor will soon become integrated with other OMERO server to include this functionality.

OMERO.editor is a Java tool that can be downloaded from our downloads page.
For convenience it comes bundled with the OMERO insight and importer clients, although it does not require an OMERO server to be used, since it is a stand-alone application.

A demo movie (Quicktime, AVI) of the software gives an introduction to the software and illustrates some of its functionalities.

Experimental metadata is represented within OMERO.editor in the form of fields, which can be arranged hierarchically (see figure). A number of fields can be used to describe a protocol or data model, by editing the field name and adding a description to each field. In addition, a field may be used to record an experimental variable, or frequently changing parameter, such as the time, number, date etc. A number of demo protocol files can be found by using the "open on-line file" function in OMERO.editor, which accesses files here.

The workspace of the editor displays the layout of the hierarchical fields in the larger left-hand panel. The variable parameters of each field can be edited here, and the hierarchy can be browsed by expanding or collapsing different fields.
The data model template can be edited using the toolbar and panel to the right. The field name, description and other details can be edited when a particular field is highlighted. Furthermore, fields can be added, duplicated, deleted, rearranged, copied, pasted and imported using the template-editing toolbar to the right.

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