Bio-Formats release (2008 December 29)

[Melissa Linkert]

Hi,

Today LOCI has released a new version of Bio-Formats.  This release contains the following changes:

* Improved metadata support for Deltavision, Zeiss LSM, MicroManager, and Leica LEI

* Restructured code base/build system to be component-driven

* Added support for JPEG and JPEG-2000 codecs within TIFF, OME-TIFF and OME-XML

* Added support for 16-bit compressed Flex files

* Added support for writing JPEG-2000 files

* Added support for Minolta MRW format

* Added support for the 2008-09 release of OME-XML

* Removed dependency on JMagick

* Re-added caching support to data browser plugin

* Updated loci.formats.codec.Codec API to be more user-friendly

* Expanded loci.formats.meta.MetadataStore API to better represent the OME-XML model

* Improved support for Nikon NEF

* Improved support for TillVision files

* Improved ImageJ import options dialog

* Fixed bugs with Zeiss LSM files larger than 4 GB

* Fixed minor bugs in most readers

* Fixed bugs with exporting from an Image5D window

* Fixed several problems with virtual stacks in ImageJ

You can download the latest release from http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats-download.html.

If you have questions, concerns or comments about the software, please feel free to contact us at [hidden email].

Regards,

-Melissa