Re: images contained in PDB timelapse files

Posted by Herbie on Aug 10, 2016; 7:14pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/images-contained-in-PDB-timelapse-files-tp5016990p5016992.html

Good evening Aryeh Weiss,

did you have a look at:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_database>

which is a bit confusing as well but you may try the mentioned
extraction tools.

Here is a different link:
<http://www.online-convert.com/file-format/pdb>

HTH

Herbie

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Am 10.08.16 um 20:42 schrieb Aryeh Weiss:

> I have been asked to work with timelapse image series which were created
> by a system called embryoscope.
> This is an incubator/microscope system that images times lapse of
> embryos created in-vitro.
>
> The images that this system creates are apparently embedded in files
> with the suffix ".pdb" (which makes is really hard to google for this
> image format because everything comes up "protein database"...)
>
> My guess is that this is a database file format that includes the images
> as well as patient metadata (based on the file size).
>
> Does anyone on this list know how to extract the raw image data from
> these files?
>
> There is a video export function, but it creates 500x500 jpg images,
> while the original images are 1280x1024 (and I hope are not jpg). There
> do not appear to be any options for changing this.
>
> Any pointers on this format will be greatly appreciated
>
> --aryeh
>

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