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Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.8.0 which includes the following changes:</div>
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<div class="">New file formats:</div>
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<li class="">Ionpath MIBI
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<li class="">added a new reader to support the reading of Ionpath Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI) files (thanks to Rachel Finck)</li></ul>
</li><li class="">PerkinElmer Vectra QPTIFF
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<li class="">added support for PerkinElmer Vectra QPTIFF files <span style="color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(The
QPTIFF Bio-Formats reader is provided through a collaboration between PerkinElmer, Inc and Glencoe Software Inc.)</span></li></ul>
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<div class="">File format fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">cellSens VSI
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<li class="">added support for lossless JPEG compression</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Imspector OBF
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<li class="">improved the parsing of OBF files with embedded OME-XML metadata (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Leica LIF
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<li class="">companion metadata files are now attached if present</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Micro-Manager
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<li class="">fixed a bug related to the parsing of the metadata closing block</li></ul>
</li><li class="">NRRD (Nearly Raw Raster Data)
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<li class="">added support for GZIP pixel stream contained within a .nrrd file</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Olympus OIR
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<li class="">added support for multi-file datasets</li></ul>
</li><li class="">OME-TIFF
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<li class="">when files are ungrouped the dimensions are corrected by checking the indexes for each associated TiffData</li></ul>
</li><li class="">PerkinElmer Operetta
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<li class="">added support for additional metadata fields such as Instrument, Wavelength and Exposure time</li></ul>
</li><li class="">TIFF
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<li class="">fixed a bug when printing IFD values of type OnDemandLongArray</li><li class="">fixed a bug when writing tile sizes for multi-series images</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Zeiss CZI
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<li class="">when Z positions are not enumerated then values are calculated from a Z step</li><li class="">metadata for DisplaySetting will now be preserved in the original metadata table</li></ul>
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<div class="">Bug fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">removed unused ScreenReader in preparation for migrating it to be an external reader</li><li class="">fixed a bug with the generation of thumbnails in Bio-Formats plugins</li><li class="">updated the Maven POM to unify component version property names</li><li class="">tile size is now reported in the core metadata when using the showinf tool</li><li class="">added setFilePatternIds to ImporterOptions for use with Bio-Formats plugins</li><li class="">improved the precision of format identification for MRC, I2I, and Zeiss LSM</li></ul>
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<div class="">Documentation improvements:</div>
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<li class="">fixed and updated a number of external documentation links</li><li class="">added links to <a href="https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/images/NRRD/" class="">public NRRD samples</a></li></ul>
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<div class="">Full details can be found at <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.8.0/about/whats-new.html" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.8.0/about/whats-new.html</a><br class="">
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The software is available at:<br class="">
<a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/downloads/" class="">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/downloads/</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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<div class="">Regards,<br class="">
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The OME Team</div>
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