Open Microscopy Environment

Hello everyone,

Today, the OME Consortium (http://openmicroscopy.org/) is pleased to announce
the 4.4.4 release of Bio-Formats (http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats).

This release contains the following notable changes:

* Many, many bug fixes (especially in Nikon .nd2 and Metamorph support)
* Support for Zeiss AxioVision TIFF datasets
* Support for Leica SCN datasets
* API support for large image "pyramids"
* Improved documentation
* Improvements to automated regression testing
* Smarter channel colorization in the Bio-Formats ImageJ plugin

You can download Bio-Formats here:

http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats/downloads

As usual, we are now working towards the next release (4.5.0). Items
which may be included in the next release are listed on this roadmap:

http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/quer ... =OMERO-4.5

We are, as always, very grateful for the bug reports, test files, and patches
submitted by the community. If you have any questions or comments, or if you
have found a bug, please contact us as instructed here:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/comm ... ling-lists

Kind regards,

Melissa Linkert
Glencoe Software, Inc.