<span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Hi,</span><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br>
</span></div><div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Today LOCI has released a new version of <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204)">Bio</span>-<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204)">Formats</span>. This <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204)">release</span> contains the following changes:<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left">* Improved metadata support for Deltavision, Zeiss LSM, MicroManager, and Leica LEI</div>
<div style="text-align:left">* Restructured code base/build system to be component-driven</div><div style="text-align:left">* Added support for JPEG and JPEG-2000 codecs within TIFF, OME-TIFF and OME-XML</div><div style="text-align:left">
* Added support for 16-bit compressed Flex files</div><div style="text-align:left">* Added support for writing JPEG-2000 files</div><div style="text-align:left">* Added support for Minolta MRW format</div><div style="text-align:left">
* Added support for the 2008-09 release of OME-XML</div><div style="text-align:left">* Removed dependency on JMagick</div><div style="text-align:left">* Re-added caching support to data browser plugin</div><div style="text-align:left">
* Updated loci.formats.codec.Codec API to be more user-friendly</div><div style="text-align:left">* Expanded loci.formats.meta.MetadataStore API to better represent the OME-XML model</div><div style="text-align:left">* Improved support for Nikon NEF</div>
<div style="text-align:left">* Improved support for TillVision files</div><div style="text-align:left">* Improved ImageJ import options dialog</div><div style="text-align:left">* Fixed bugs with Zeiss LSM files larger than 4 GB</div>
<div style="text-align:left">* Fixed minor bugs in most readers</div><div style="text-align:left">* Fixed bugs with exporting from an Image5D window</div><div style="text-align:left">* Fixed several problems with virtual stacks in ImageJ</div>
<div><br></div></div><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="text-align:left">You can download the latest <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204)">release</span> from <a href="http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats-download.html" style="color:rgb(28, 81, 168)" target="_blank">http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204)">formats</span>-download.html</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div><div style="text-align:left">If you have questions, concerns or comments about the software, please feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:bioformats@loci.wisc.edu" style="color:rgb(28, 81, 168)" target="_blank">bioformats@loci.wisc.edu</a>.<br>
</div><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Regards,<br></div><font color="#888888"><div style="text-align:left">-Melissa</div></font></span></div>
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