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Dear All,<br class="">
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Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.4.1 which includes the following changes:<br class="">
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File format improvements:
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<li class="">MIAS (Maia Scientific)
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<li class="">added a fix for a possible exception when image files are not found under channel-specific subdirectories</li></ul>
</li><li class="">BD Pathway
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<li class="">added fix to check if Experiment.exp is a directory or an experiment file</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Imspector OBF
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<li class="">enabled forward compatibility for future versions as the OBF format is backwards compatible (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)</li></ul>
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Documentation improvements:
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<li class="">updated external homepage link for FocalPoint</li><li class="">removed Imago from list of visualization and analysis applications as it is no longer available from the Mayachitra website</li><li class="">added links to public sample files for Hamamatsu NDPI and Hamamatsu VMS <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(see
<a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/images/" class="">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/images/</a>)</span></li><li class="">listed OpenSlide as available software for supported formats</li><li class="">added a new developer page detailing in-memory reading and writing <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(see
<a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/developers/in-memory.html" class="">
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/developers/in-memory.html</a>)</span></li><li class="">updated the Bio-Formats API versioning policy which now follows strict semantic versioning <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(see
<a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/about/index.html#versioning-policy" class="">
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/about/index.html#versioning-policy</a>)</span></li><li class="">a new options page has been added detailing the usage of configurable format specific options for readers and writers <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> (see
<a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/formats/options.html" class="">
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/formats/options.html</a>)</span> Links to the available options are also included under the relevant supported formats</li></ul>
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Full details can be found at <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/about/whats-new.html" class="">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/about/whats-new.html</a></span><br class="">
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The software is available at:<br class="">
<a class="postlink" href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.4.1">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.4.1</a><br class="">
and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.<br class="">
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Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:<br class="">
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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community</a><br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
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The OME Team<br class="">
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<div class="">Dr Helen Flynn</div>
<div class="">OME Technical Writer</div>
<div class="">Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression</div>
<div class="">Open Microscopy Environment</div>
<div class="">University of Dundee</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/" class="">http://openmicroscopy.org</a></div>
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