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The OME consortium develops several different software products for visualising, managing, and analysing microscope image data, all of which is freely available under the GNU public license.

Currently, OME offers two different version of its server software, the original perl-based OME server which has been in development since 2000, and a lighter, java-based server/client suite which concentrates on managing imaging data. If you are unfamiliar with either tool, you may want to check out the "Why Two Servers" and "What They Do" pages to find out which server is right for you.

The Original OME Server

Currently at revision 2.6.1, the original OME server is a Perl-based system for visualising, managing, and analysing microscope images and metadata. It includes a web browser interface, a threshold segmentation and tracking application (called "findSpots"), a MatLab interface, support for VisBio, LDAP, BioFormats and much more. It is available as source code and pre-compiled binaries.

OMERO Server & Client Tools

Currently in Beta 2 release, OMERO is a java-based server/client system for visualising, managing, and annotating microscope images and metadata, and is separated into several components:

  • OMERO.server, which supports several remote cross-platform Java clients and is the groundwork application in the OMERO software line.
  • OMERO.webadmin, this is a web browser-based server admin tool, that replaces the functionality available in the OMERO.admin cient application. It is included with the OMERO.server distribution. OMERO.admin has been deprecated and should not be used to configure the OMERO3-Beta2 server.
  • OMERO.insight (also known as "Shoola"), the client application used to view, categorise, and annotate images from an OMERO server.
  • OMERO.importer, which can read a wide range of image file formats and upload them into the OMERO server.

All OMERO software is provided in easy to install bundles for most operating systems.

Bio-Formats

Developed by the Laboratory for Optical Computational Instrumentation group (LOCI), Bio-Formats is a standalone Java library for reading and writing popular microscopy file formats and is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several formats.