OMERO Platform

OME Remote Objects (OMERO) is Java Enterprise application that provides integration, visualisation, management, and analysis of biological image data.

This suite of Java-based tools for data visualisation and management, the OMERO clients, are cross-platform. To run on your computer they require that Java 1.5 (or 1.6) be installed. This is included with most modern systems and is an easy install for others from http://java.com

The OMERO.insight client gets all of its information from a remote OMERO server — the location of the server is specified at login. Since this connection utilises a standard network connection, the client can be run anytime the user is connected to the internet.

There are a number of demonstration videos available providing an overview of the applications. For an initial impression please browse out screenshots. For a detailed overview of the OMERO clients, see the OMERO.clients Trac page.

OMERO Technical Overview

OMERO.server is a hybrid application that includes JBOSS and ICE applications providing access to the OMERO binary image repository and image metadata and annotations in a relational database managed by PostgreSQL bearing a representation of the OME Data Model. All object-relational mapping runs through Hibernate.

The OMERO server is built as a set of separate but linked subsystems. These are fully described at our ServerDesign page. All image data imported into an OMERO server is split into two types: binary pixel data is stored in an image repository and accessed through a Rendering Engine while all image and experimental metadata are stored within a relational database and accessed through the OMERO Metadata Service.

Most other technical documentation is located on the developer maintained Trac systems for either server or clients.