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Hello everyone,
Today, UW-Madison LOCI (
http://loci.wisc.edu) and Glencoe Software
(
http://glencoesoftware.com) are pleased to announce the 4.3.2 release of
Bio-Formats (
http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats).
This release contains the following notable changes:
* Many bug fixes, including:
- Better support for Volocity datasets that contain compressed data
- More accurate parsing of ICS metadata
- More accurate parsing of cellSens .vsi files
* Added support for a few new formats
- .inr
- Canon DNG
- Hitachi S-4800
- Kodak .bip
- JPX
- Volocity Library Clipping (.acff)
- Bruker MRI
* Updated Zeiss LSM reader to parse application tags
* Various performance improvements, particularly for reading/writing TIFFs
* Updated OMERO reader implementation to work with OMERO 4.3.x
You can download Bio-Formats here:
http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats/downloadsWe would also like to announce that there is now proper documentation on
how to use Bio-Formats within Fiji/ImageJ, thanks to Jason Palmer of LOCI.
The documentation is available here:
http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats/using-bio-formats(It is also linked from the "Help > About Plugins > LOCI Plugins" window in
Fiji/ImageJ).
We are now working towards the next release, which has yet to be named.
Items which may be included in the next release are listed on the
following roadmaps:
http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/query?group=status&component=Bio-Formats&milestone=OME-5.0http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/query?group=status&component=Bio-Formats&milestone=UnscheduledWe 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://loci.wisc.edu/software/mailing-lists.
Kind regards,
Melissa Linkert
Glencoe Software, Inc.