how to explain data structure

[freeman-lab]

from an offline chat... here's a set of nouns to explain the basic concepts underlying the data structure here

general concept

A collection of images is specified by a JSON file. A collection consists of multiple tilesets, each of which is also specified by a JSON file. A tileset consists of multiple tiles.

|- collection (collection.json)
  |- tileset (tileset1.json)
	|- tile 
	|- tile
	|- tile
  |- tileset (tileset2.json)
	|- tile
  |- tileset (tileset3.json)
	|- tile
	|- tile

worked example

A collection is an experiment / hybridization, for each experiment we have multiple fields of view, for each field of view we have multiple tiles.

|- hybridization.json
  |- hybridization_fov_000.json
    |- image0.tif
    |- image1.tif
    |- ... 
  |- hybridization_fov_001.json
    |- image0.tif
    |- image1.tif
    |- ...