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Open Microscopy Environment

Software and data format standards for management of microscopy image data. Joint project between international private and public research

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OME   says 👋

OME is a consortium of universities, research labs, industry and developers producing open-source software and format standards for microscopy data. If you are working with bioimaging data like these:

then you may already be using something from OME! (You can find out more about these images on https://idr.openmicroscopy.org.)

Projects you may be interested in:

  • OME Model GitHub stars At the core of everything we do is the specification of an open data model, a vocabulary, that lets software components and users exchange bioimaging (meta)data.
  • Bio-Formats GitHub stars is a library translate hundreds of bioimaging formats into the common model.
  • OMERO GitHub stars is a data management platform that uses Bio-Formats to serve all supported formats to your users, through:
  • OME-NGFF, next-generation file formats. See:

Find more ways to get started under https://www.openmicroscopy.org/explore!

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  1. openmicroscopy openmicroscopy Public

    OME (Open Microscopy Environment) develops open-source software and data format standards for the storage and manipulation of biological light microscopy data. A joint project between universities,…

    Java 222 105

  2. bioformats bioformats Public

    Bio-Formats is a Java library for reading and writing data in life sciences image file formats. It is developed by the Open Microscopy Environment. Bio-Formats is released under the GNU General Pub…

    Java 435 262

  3. bio-formats-examples bio-formats-examples Public

    Examples of usage of the Bio-Formats API

    Java 13 19

  4. omero-deployment-examples omero-deployment-examples Public

    Examples playbooks for installing OMERO with Ansible and Docker

    11 12

  5. omero-insight omero-insight Public

    Gradle project containing insight java client for OMERO

    Java 9 13

  6. omero-figure omero-figure Public

    An OMERO.web app for creating Figures from images in OMERO

    JavaScript 22 38

Repositories

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  • ome/ngff-rfc8-revisions's past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 4 2 24 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • www.openmicroscopy.org Public

    OME main website

    ome/www.openmicroscopy.org's past year of commit activity
    HTML 7 CC-BY-4.0 27 16 1 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • ngff-spec Public

    Next-generation file format (NGFF) specifications for storing bioimaging data in the cloud.

    ome/ngff-spec's past year of commit activity
    Python 14 19 20 6 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • ome-model Public

    OME model (specification, code generator, implementation)

    ome/ome-model's past year of commit activity
    XSLT 19 29 9 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • ome-codecs Public

    OME image compression (coder-decoder implementations)

    ome/ome-codecs's past year of commit activity
    Java 4 12 3 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • schemas Public

    A repository containing the published OME schemas for www.openmicroscopy.org

    ome/schemas's past year of commit activity
    XSLT 0 CC-BY-4.0 4 1 1 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • upptime Public

    📈 Uptime monitor and status page for OME, powered by @upptime

    ome/upptime's past year of commit activity
    Markdown 1 MIT 2 1 0 Updated Nov 13, 2026
  • ome-poi Public

    OME fork of Apache Jakarta POI

    ome/ome-poi's past year of commit activity
    Java 0 Apache-2.0 5 2 1 Updated Nov 12, 2026
  • ome-common-java Public

    Java library providing common functionality for all OME Java components

    ome/ome-common-java's past year of commit activity
    Java 2 19 2 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Nov 12, 2026
  • ome-stubs Public

    Stubs for optional third-party components

    ome/ome-stubs's past year of commit activity
    Java 0 8 0 0 Updated Nov 12, 2026