Galaxy Workflow - ARC2OMERO
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Workflow Type: Galaxy
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Workflow Overview

This Galaxy workflow allows transferring ARC imaging data stored as .ZIP file to a target OMERO instance by 1) keeping the ARC structure and 2) automatize the metadata annotation of the assay.

How does it works

The workflow extract all the ./assays/experiment/dataset/ file path and create an OMERO dataset containing the images. The "isa.assay.xlsx" file is used to add key-value pairs to the dataset.

Workflow Inputs

The workflow as three different data inputs:

  1. ARC .ZIP file: A zip file with the whole ARC. Can be downloaded from the DataPLANT ARC repo
  2. Image File Extension: Image formats (e.g. TIFF, PNG, JPEG) to upload into OMERO
  3. Target OMERO instance: OMERO instance where to upload the data
  4. Depth of the ARC dataset folder: How depth after ./assays/experiment/dataset/ images are stored. As example if images are assays/CLSM-stacks_oryzalin/dataset/treated the depth need to be set to 1. If assays/CLSM-stacks_oryzalin/dataset the depth need to be set to 0

Test Dataset

https://git.nfdi4plants.org/natural-variation-and-evolution/microscopy_collection/map-by-seq_clsm-stacks/-/tree/main?ref_type=heads

Inputs

ID Name Description Type
Deepth of the folder under "dataset" where the image are stored Deepth of the folder under "dataset" where the image are stored n/a
  • string
Image File Extension Image File Extension Image format of the image to import into OMERO
  • string
Input ARC .zip file Input ARC .zip file Input here the .zip file from the ARC repository.
  • File
OMERO server URL OMERO server URL n/a
  • string

Steps

ID Name Description
4 Unzip toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/imgteam/unzip/unzip/6.0+galaxy2
5 Excel to Tabular Extract the metadata from the assay toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ufz/xlsx2tsv/xlsx2tsv/0.1.0+galaxy0
6 Select Grep1
7 Filter Tabular toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/filter_tabular/filter_tabular/3.3.1
8 Cut Cut1
9 Transpose toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/datamash_transpose/datamash_transpose/1.9+galaxy0
10 Text reformatting toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/bgruening/text_processing/tp_awk_tool/9.5+galaxy3
11 Column Regex Find And Replace toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/galaxyp/regex_find_replace/regexColumn1/1.0.3
12 Parse parameter value param_value_from_file
13 Parse parameter value param_value_from_file
14 Unzip toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/imgteam/unzip/unzip/6.0+galaxy2
15 OMERO Image Import toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ufz/omero_import/omero_import/5.18.0+galaxy6
16 JQ toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/iuc/jq/jq/1.0
17 Parse parameter value param_value_from_file
18 OMERO Metadata Import toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/ufz/omero_metadata_import/omero_metadata_import/5.18.0+galaxy7

Outputs

ID Name Description Type
log log n/a
  • File

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Version 1 (earliest) Created 23rd Mar 2026 at 12:58 by Riccardo Massei

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