Open Microscopy Environment

OME develops open-source software and data format standards for the storage and manipulation of biological microscopy data.

The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) is a multi-site collaborative effort among academic laboratories and a number of commercial entities, that produces open tools to support data management for biological light microscopy. Designed to interact with existing commercial software, all OME formats and software are free, and all OME source code is available under the GNU General public license or through commercial license from Glencoe Software. In 2011 the OME consortium was awarded a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (Ref: 095931). This Award provided support for the continued development of the OME Data Model, Bio-Formats file translation library and OMERO application in Dundee, as well as funding development positions in nine other laboratories.