Open Microscopy Environment

Dear All,

Today we are releasing OMERO and Bio-Formats 5.1.2. This is a point release that contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats and OMERO.

Bio-Formats
Bio-Formats 5.1.2 adds writing support for OME-TIFF to the native C++ implementation, allows export of OME BigTIFF, and adds a Slidebook6 reader (many thanks to Richard Myers of 3i - Intelligent Imaging Innovations).

Other improvements include:

• improved MATLAB developer documentation
  
• preliminary work to make MATLAB toolbox work with Octave
  
• ImageJ fixes for getPlanePosition* macro extension methods and display of composite color virtual stacks
  
• many bug fixes for formats including:
  • Nikon ND2 - improved parsing of plane position and timestamp data
    
  • TIFF - reduced memory required to read color lookup tables
    
  • Zeiss LSM - improved parsing of 16-bit color lookup tables
    
  • Zeiss CZI - fixed ordering of original metadata table and reading of large pre-stitched tiled images
    
  • AIM - fixed handling of truncated files
    
  • Metamorph/MetaXpress TIFF - improved UIC1 metadata tag parsing
    
  • Leica LIF - improved metadata handling

Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... s-new.html

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.2
and the C++ implementation is available from:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio ... cpp/5.1.2/

OMERO
OMERO 5.1.2 features a number of bug fixes and also introduces some new functionality.

Improvements include:

• Read-Write group support
  
• LDAP plugin can now set group owners
  
• auto log-in via webstart for users already logged into OMERO.web
  
• ability to attach results tables from ImageJ/Fiji to your images in OMERO
  
• better delete functionality and warnings in the UI
  
• magnification values now displayed as multiplication factors (e.g. 40x) rather than percentages
  
• long file names more readable in OMERO.insight data tree
  
• various deployment fixes
  
• OMERO.web updates include:
  • image interpolation on zoom
    
  • optimization of plate grid and right-hand panel
    
  • download single original files
    
  • faster loading of large datasets

Critical bug fixes include:

• in-place import file handle leak
  
• various unicode and unit failures (thanks to Tristan Nowak for his help in identifying several of these bugs)

Full details are available at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... story.html

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.1.2

Upgrade information is at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... grade.html.


Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

Regards,

The OME Team