Experiment

The primary module to capture provenance of scientific experiments. The module is implemented as a plugin in webclient. It provides a Metadata Editor to document the metadata of the computational and non-computational steps of an scientific experiment.

Requirements

• OMERO server. Check the guideliness to install OMERO here
• Install the third party libraries used in the Experiment code.
  • pip install django-form-utils
  • pip install reportlab
  • pip install httplib2
  • pip install sparqlwrapper

Installation

1. Copy the folder 'Experiment' to:

   /home/omero/OMERO.server/lib/python/omeroweb/

2. Add Experiment to the known web apps

   /home/omero/OMERO.server/bin/omero config append omero.web.apps '"Experiment"'

3. Add the Experiment plugin to the list of right plugins

/home/omero/OMERO.server/bin/omero config append omero.web.ui.right_plugins '["Experiment", "Experiment/ webclient_plugins/right_plugin.experiment.js.html","receptor_experiment_tab"]'

4. Restart the web server

   /home/omero/OMERO.server/bin/omero web restart

Publication

• Towards reproducibility of microscopy experiments, Sheeba Samuel, Frank Taubert, Daniel Walther, Birgitta König-Ries, H Martin Bücker, D-Lib Magazine, 2017.
• The Story of an Experiment: A Provenance-based Semantic Approach towards Research Reproducibility, Sheeba Samuel, Kathrin Groeneveld, Frank Taubert, Daniel Walther, Tom Kache, Teresa Langenstück, Birgitta König-Ries, H Martin Bücker, and Christoph Biskup, SWAT4LS 2018.