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Command line interface

ome-zarr-models can validate and show metadata using a command line interface.

To see available commands,

ome-zarr-models --help
usage: ome-zarr-models [-h] [--version] COMMAND ...

OME-Zarr Models CLI

positional arguments:
  COMMAND     Available commands
    validate  Validate an OME-Zarr
    info      Get information about an OME-Zarr group

options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --version   show program's version number and exit

Validation

To validate a OME-Zarr group, pass the path to the group to ome-zarr-models validate, for example

ome-zarr-models validate https://uk1s3.embassy.ebi.ac.uk/idr/zarr/v0.5/idr0066/ExpD_chicken_embryo_MIP.ome.zarr
✅ Valid OME-Zarr

The group can be specified as any string that can be parsed by zarr.open_group.

Info

To get information about an OME-Zarr group, pass the path to a group to ome-zarr-models info. This will print the metadata (see below for an example). If you have the rich Python package installed, a more readable output will be produced.

ome-zarr-models info https://uk1s3.embassy.ebi.ac.uk/idr/zarr/v0.5/idr0066/ExpD_chicken_embryo_MIP.ome.zarr
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                        Axis(name='x', type='space', unit='micrometer')
                    ],
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                            path='0',
                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[1.6, 1.6]),)
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                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[3.2, 3.2]),)
                        ),
                        Dataset(
                            path='2',
                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[6.4, 6.4]),)
                        ),
                        Dataset(
                            path='3',
                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[12.8, 12.8]),)
                        ),
                        Dataset(
                            path='4',
                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[25.6, 25.6]),)
                        ),
                        Dataset(
                            path='5',
                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[51.2, 51.2]),)
                        ),
                        Dataset(
                            path='6',
                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[102.4, 102.4]),)
                        ),
                        Dataset(
                            path='7',
                            coordinateTransformations=(VectorScale(type='scale', scale=[204.8, 204.8]),)
                        )
                    ),
                    coordinateTransformations=None,
                    metadata=None,
                    name='/',
                    type=None
                )
            ],
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                        'active': True,
                        'coefficient': 1.0,
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                        'inverted': False,
                        'label': 'Cy3',
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