Bio-Formats December 2008 Release

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 bioformats@loci.wisc.edu.