3Dscript.server: true server-side 3D animation of microscopy images using a natural language-based syntax

Schmid B, Tripal P, Winter Z, Palmisano R (2021)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Journal

Book Volume: 37

Pages Range: 4901-4902

Journal Issue: 24

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab462

Abstract

A Summary: Creating 3D animations from microscopy data is computationally expensive and requires high-end hardware. We therefore developed 3Dscript.server, a 3D animation software that runs as a service on dedicated, shared workstations. Using 3Dscript as the underlying rendering engine, it offers unique features not found in existing software: rendering is performed completely server-side. The target animation is specified on the client without the rendering engine, eliminating any hardware requirements client-side. Still, defining an animation is intuitive due to 3Dscript's natural language-based animation description. We implemented a new OMERO web app to utilize 3Dscript.server directly from the OMERO web interface; a Fiji client to use 3Dscript.server from Fiji for integration into image processing pipelines; and batch scripts to run 3Dscript.server on compute clusters for large-scale visualization projects.

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APA:

Schmid, B., Tripal, P., Winter, Z., & Palmisano, R. (2021). 3Dscript.server: true server-side 3D animation of microscopy images using a natural language-based syntax. Bioinformatics, 37(24), 4901-4902. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab462

MLA:

Schmid, Benjamin, et al. "3Dscript.server: true server-side 3D animation of microscopy images using a natural language-based syntax." Bioinformatics 37.24 (2021): 4901-4902.

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