Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

[Nico Stuurman-4]

If you are attending the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)  
meeting starting this weekend in Washington DC, please come and visit  
us in booth 1252 in the exhibition space.  We will be showcasing the  
latest version of Micro-Manager and hope to meet current and  
prospective users of Micro-Manager and get their feedback.  This will  
also be an excellent opportunity for a hands-on tutorial and to ask  
all those questions you had about Micro-Manager in person.

Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org) is Open Source software for  
microscope image acquisition.  It controls a large number of  
scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals and lets you  
take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel images.  
It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and  
Linux OSs.   Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at UCSF  
supported by grants from the Sandler Foundation.

The latest version of Micro-Manager (1.1) adds support for multi-
position acquisition, burst mode imaging and hardware and software  
autofocussing.

Hope to see you in DC!

Best,

Nico

[Gabriel Landini]

Nico,

> It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and
> Linux OSs.

Do you remember if it now supports QImaging MicroPublisher 3.3 (the non-cooled
one, firewire) under Linux?
I had a look at the downloads, but I do not see a Linux package, and the only
QImaging camera mentioned seems to be a greyscale one.

I am quite happy to do some testing, if that would help.

Many thanks,

Gabriel

[Nico Stuurman-4]

Hi Gabriel,

>> It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and
>> Linux OSs.
>>
>
> Do you remember if it now supports QImaging MicroPublisher 3.3 (the  
> non-cooled
> one, firewire) under Linux?

If the QCam SDK supports that camera, and it is a monochrome camera,  
it is likely to work with Micro-Manager.  The next version of Micro-
Manager (beta to be released early next year) will support color  
cameras.

> I had a look at the downloads, but I do not see a Linux package,  
> and the only
> QImaging camera mentioned seems to be a greyscale one.

I am not routinely supplying linux builds, since there are too many  
linux versions to build for, and it would take a substantial amount  
of effort to supply a linux download that will work in most  
circumstances.  However,  quite a number of people (myself included)  
have build Micro-Manager on  linux, and if there are any problems  
with the supplied instructions, just ask.  I have never build the  
QCam adapter on linux though, will try that next week or so if you  
are interested.

> I am quite happy to do some testing, if that would help.

Testing will always help!

Best,

Nico



>
> Many thanks,
>
> Gabriel
>