Date: November 12th - 14th, 2025
Location: Irchel Campus, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich
Bioimage analysis is evolving to address challenges of big data, dealing with complex modalities like 3D and time-resolved imaging and working towards more FAIR image data and image analysis workflows. A big driver for standardization is the development of OME-NGFF, the open, next generation file format for bioimaging data. A big next step for OME-NGFF will be the adoption of the Zarr V3 standard to address concerns about file numbers in OME-Zarr files.
Following up on the successful hackathons in 2023 (see a summary of the results here) and 2024 (see resulting preprint), we are bringing together leading developers and researchers again this fall in Zurich Switzerland. Major topics of the hackathon will be handling OME-Zarrs in Python and in Java, how to build workflows for processing OME-Zarrs and further evolution of the OME-NGFF spec.
The hackathon is the second part of the 2025 International OME-NGFF Workshop, which starts with a Symposium offering both talks from international leaders as well as a hands-on session for beginners. You can register for the symposium here: https://www.ema.uzh.ch/en/register/biofair-ome-ngff-symposium.html
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Apply to the hackathon by September 30th
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This year’s hackathon will tackle the following topics. The details will be planned in pre-hackathon meetings.
You want to lead your own topic at the hackathon? Please reach out!