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Bio-Formats release (2007 Feb 7)

Posted by ctrueden on Feb 08, 2007; 12:59am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Bio-Formats-release-2007-Feb-7-tp3700385.html

Hi,

Today LOCI has released a new version of Bio-Formats. Major changes include:

* Added plugin for downloading images from OME server
* Improved HTTP import functionality
* Added metadata filtering -- unreadable metadata is no longer shown
* Better metadata table for multi-series datasets
* Added support for calibration information in Gatan DM3
* Eliminated need to install JAI Image I/O Tools to read ND2 files
* Fixed ZVI bugs: metadata truncation, and other problems
* Fixed bugs in Leica LIF: incorrect calibration, first series labeling
* Fixed memory bug in Zeiss LSM
* Many bugfixes: PerkinElmer, Deltavision, Leica LEI, LSM, ND2, and others
* IFormatReader.close(boolean) method to close files temporarily
* Replaced Compression utility class with extensible Compressor interface
* Improved testing framework to use .bioformats configuration files

You can download the release from the Bio-Formats web site:
   http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html

As always, please let me know if you have any issues or questions
about the software.

Cheers,
Curtis