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OMERO Platform v4.3.1

Overview of OMERO

OME Remote Objects (OMERO) is a modern client-server software platform for visualising, managing, and annotating scientific image data. OMERO also provides components for image importing, archiving, protocol recording, and user administration. OMERO consists of a Java server, several Java client applications, as well as Python and C++ bindings and a Django-based web application. See the OMERO feature list.

The OMERO server is built as a set of separate but linked subsystems. All imported image data is split into two types: binary pixel data is stored in an image repository and accessed through the Rendering Engine and other services while all experimental and image metadata are stored within a relational database and accessed through the OMERO Metadata Service. The database is a representation of the OME Data Model and is mapped to objects via Hibernate.

The suite of Java-based tools for data visualisation and management, the OMERO clients, is cross-platform. To run on your computer they require Java 1.5 or 1.6 be installed. This is included with most modern systems and is an easy install for others from http://java.com.

The OMERO.insight client gets all of its information from a remote OMERO server — the location of the server is specified at login. Since this connection utilises a standard network connection, the client can be run anytime the user is connected to the internet.

There are a number of demonstration videos available on the Features List page providing an overview of the applications. For an initial impression please browse out screenshots. For a detailed overview of the OMERO clients, see the OMERO.clients.

This documentation is for the latest version of the OMERO Platform. We also have archived versions available for legacy versions of OMERO.

Most other technical documentation is located on the developer maintained Trac systems for either the server or clients.

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