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Show or hide the answer How do I get support for your software?
Open source support for the various OME products is provided via either the OME mailing lists or the OME Forums. Commercial support is provided by Glencoe Software, Inc.

 

Show or hide the answer What’s the difference between the OME and the OMERO server?

The OME server is a Perl-based system for visualising, managing, and analysing microscope images and metadata. The OME Server was actively developed until 2005, but is no longer actively worked on. Questions or comments can directed to the OME mailing lists or the OME Forums.

OMERO server is an enterprise application written in Java that provides integration, visualisation, management, and analysis of biological image data. The OMERO clients allow the scientist to remotely manage, view, annotate and measure multi-dimensional images from anywhere. It is the focus of our current development effort.

Show or hide the answer Which server platforms do you support?

The OMERO server runs on most Unix-based platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X, and Windows subject to certain prerequisites. See Getting Started for more details.

Show or hide the answer Besides the image data, how do I capture other experimental data?

The OMERO.editor tool can be used to add Protocols and Experimental metadata to Projects, Datasets and Images in OMERO. A movie demonstrating this functionality in the OMERO Beta 4.1 release is here.

It is also possible to annotate projects, datasets and images with a Description, add Comments and Tags, as shown in various movies on the OMERO feature list page.

Show or hide the answer High Content data support

Support for High Content Data was first added to the OME-Data model in June 2007.

The 4.1 and later releases include preview features for working with high-content screening (HCS) data, see high-content screening (HCS) data.

The actual version of the clients (OMERO.insight or OMERO.web) do not support heatmaps.

Show or hide the answer Do you have 64-bit support?

Yes.

Through the usage of a 64-bit Java virtual machine you can use any of the client applications, OMERO API or OMERO.server on a 64-bit platform.

Show or hide the answer What license does your software use?

OMERO.server and clients use the GNU General Public License 2 or later.

OMERO.web uses the Affero GNU General Public License.

The core OME Model Schema files (.XSD) use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Show or hide the answer How do I collaborate with you?

There are lots of ways to work with the OME Consortium. Most people use the OME Forums or the Mailing Lists to communicate their needs, status or problems. If you want to work with our source code, feel free to check it out. If at all possible, consider coming to the next OME User's Meeting to meet us, tell us what you're doing and diascuss how we can both help each other.

Show or hide the answer How do I cite OME, OMERO, VisBio, or Bio-Formats?

Details of the best citations to use are available here: Citing OME

Show or hide the answer What is the copyright information for OME material?

As OME is a consortium of separate groups, from different institutions, working together on a common product you will find different copyright messages across our code, documentation, products and publications. These messages reflect the origin of that particular part of our material.

Note: the origin is just that, it does not indicate that people from that institution are responsible for that code now. i.e. If a file is created by Glencoe, but worked on extensively by team members from Dundee, it's copyright will not change.

Agreements exist between the different entities in the consortium to release the material together under a unified license.

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