[ome-users] Release of Bio-Formats 5.5.0

[Melissa Linkert]

Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.5.0 which includes the following changes:

New file formats:
  * Olympus OIR
    * added support for Olympus .oir
(http://openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats/formats/olympus-oir.html)
data (funded by a partnership between Glencoe Software and OLYMPUS
EUROPA SE & Co. KG)
  * PerkinElmer Columbus
    * added support for PerkinElmer Columbus
(http://openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats/formats/perkinelmer-columbus.html)
data

File format improvements:
  * Andor Bio-Imaging Division (ABD) TIFF
    * fixed acquisition date format from MM/dd/yyyy to dd/MM/yyyy
  * Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
    * corrected logic used to determined PixelType by parsing uiBpc tags
  * Hamamatsu ndpi
    * improved handling of channels in NDPIS datasets (thanks to Manuel Stritt)
  * Imspector OBF
    * fix for SAXParseException when description field in metadata is empty

Documentation improvements:
  * added links to public sample files for Cellomics
  * added links to public sample files for InCell 3000

Full details can be found at
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.5/about/whats-new.html

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.5.0
and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.

Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

Regards,

The OME Team