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 This will automatically install the [ BABY ](https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/swain-lab/aliby/baby) segmentation software. Support for additional segmentation and tracking algorithms is under development.
 
+## Omero Server
+
+We use (and recommend) [OMERO](https://www.openmicroscopy.org/omero/) to manage our microscopy database, but ALIBY can process both locally-stored experiments and remote ones hosted on a server.
+
+### Setting up a server
+For testing and development, the easiest way to set up an OMERO server is by
+using Docker images.
+[The software carpentry](https://software-carpentry.org/) and the [Open
+ Microscopy Environment](https://www.openmicroscopy.org), have provided
+[instructions](https://ome.github.io/training-docker/) to do this.
+
+The `docker-compose.yml` file can be used to create an OMERO server with an
+accompanying PostgreSQL database, and an OMERO web server.
+It is described in detail
+[here](https://ome.github.io/training-docker/12-dockercompose/).
+
+Our version of the `docker-compose.yml` has been adapted from the above to
+use version 5.6 of OMERO.
+
+To start these containers (in background):
+```shell script
+cd pipeline-core
+docker-compose up -d
+```
+Omit the `-d` to run in foreground.
+
+To stop them, in the same directory, run:
+```shell script
+docker-compose stop
+```
+
 ### Troubleshooting
 
 Segmentation has been tested on: Mac OSX Mojave, Ubuntu 20.04 and Arch Linux.