From the microscope to publication, OMERO handles all your images in a secure central repository. You can view, organise, analyse and share your data from anywhere you have internet access. Work with your images from a desktop app (Windows, Mac or Linux), from the web or from 3rd party software.

Use the OMERO.insight client to browse and import your images.

Use the dedicated OMERO.importer client to import your images

Import images using the command-line interface

Organise

You can access your data in OMERO from any platform. Our client applications run on any OS (Windows, Mac or Linux) and the OMERO.web client runs in your browser. OMERO lets you organise your data how you want using 'Projects' and 'Datasets' to manage your images. You can create tags and tag groups to annotate images with key-words of your choice. OMERO also supports rating, comments, and file attachments. Once annotated, you can browse, filter or search your images by their annotations and export a table of tag-counts for a Dataset of images.

Users of OMERO can be organised into groups, each with different permissions levels, allowing you to collaborate with your colleagues. You can share and annotate the data you want with the people you want.

Connecting to OMERO using OMERO.insight on Mac and Windows	Using Projects and Datasets in OMERO.insight	Using Projects and Datasets in OMERO.web
Annotating data with Tags, Ratings, Files etc in OMERO.insight	Use the OMERO.editor to add protocol and experimental details to your data	An introduction to the group permissions system in OMERO.insight
See how tags can be shared within a collaborative group (OMERO.insight)	Overview of collaborative features in OMERO.web	Individual images can be 'shared' for a specified duration with chosen users using the web client's 'Share' feature.
Annotating data in OMERO.web

View

In OMERO, you can view your images in multiple dimensions, scrolling through Z-sections and time-points. Turn channels on and off, change channel colours and adjust rendering settings. You can also copy and paste settings between images. Viewing images remotely in OMERO is fast, because you don't need to download the whole image to view it. OMERO simply renders the planes you want and sends the rendered image to the client. Even if you want to view a Z-projection: OMERO does the projection on the server and sends you the result. With the 4.3 release, OMERO supports 'Big' images with viewers that allow you to pan and zoom in a 'Google maps' manner.

Browse and View Images remotely on Windows and Mac	Browse images and adjust rendering settings in Insight
Browse and view images in the OMERO.web app	View Acquisition metadata alongside your images

Analyse

In OMERO, you can draw regions of interest on your images and measure their dimensions and pixel intensities, exporting the data as a spread-sheet. OMERO supports Python scripting, allowing you to write analysis scripts that run on the server. These scripts can be launched from the OMERO.insight client allowing all users to access additional functionality on the server.

OMERO's open API allows clients written in Java, Python, C++ or Matlab to access image data and save analysis results back to the server, making OMERO a powerful platform for 3rd party analysis tools. OMERO includes a simple ImageJ plugin which allows ImageJ to access images on OMERO. For more info, please see the OMERO developer wiki.

Draw ROIs, in 2D, or across 3D or 4D. Measure distances, sizes, pixel intensity of ROIs and export to an Excel spreadsheet.
An intro to the OMERO Scripting Service	The script-writing workflow
An example of using OMERO.scripts to add image processing and analysis functionality to the OMERO server.

Export

Export your images together with their metadata as ome.tiff files, supported by many other image analysis packages or open directly in ImageJ. Export data as a movie or as auto-generated figures ready for presentation: see Figure Export.

Export any image as OME-TIFF or open directly in ImageJ using the OMERO plugin.

Use OMERO to generate figures for presentation.

Getting Started

For info on how to get started, see the getting started page or read the OMERO server or clients pages.