Idr0167: Predicting cell cycle stage from 3D single-cell nuclear-stained images from www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/6/... by Li et al. idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

Idr0171: Experimental and machine learning-based exploration of repurposed drugs reveals chemical features underlying phospholipidosis from www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Kuzikov et al.
idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

Two new studies available in the Image Data Resource (IDR, idr.openmicroscopy.org). Plus, IDR welcomes a new organism - the African green monkey!

OME 2026 Community Survey This year in April, the 19th OME Community Meeting will be gathering to determine the "Future and Governance of OME" during the final meeting day's guided Discussion Forum / "Unmeeting". This survey...

One week left for the OME2026 Community Survey! 📣 If you haven't filled it out, please do so. We'll be discussing it live at the #OME2026 meeting in April.

bit.ly/ome2026-comm...

OME 2026 Community Survey Calling all OME Community members, contributors, and lurkers! This year in April, the 19th OME Community Meeting will be gathering to determine the "Future and Governance of OME" during the final mee...

Help shape the future of @openmicroscopy.org! 🔮

The OME 2026 community survey is open—tell us what’s working, what isn’t, and what you'd like to see next.

Takes just a few minutes 👇
forum.image.sc/t/ome-2026-c...

Excited to see direct streaming of @openmicroscopy.org @zarr.dev datasets in #syGlass!

Exploring huge images without upfront download is just what we’ve been working toward with cloud-optimized formats.

Great to have tools connecting the ecosystem of imaging repositories, now including VR 🙌

We have integrated the Allen Institute's BioFile Finder app with IDR. You can quickly Group and Filter all images in a study. Data is served by the IDR search engine and supports up to a million images at a time. BioFile Finder links are on each study page e.g. idr.openmicroscopy.org/study/idr0056/

Dear all

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 8.4.0 which includes a new file format as well as several fixes and improvements.

The full list of changes included in this release is on www.openmicroscopy.org/2026/01/15/b... Please use image.sc in case of questions or problems.

Idr0173: Released ahead of its publication - Early Parkinson’s disease is defined by α-synuclein oligomer-driven aggregation susceptible cells by Breiter et al. Images in idr0173 are OME-Zarrs converted by the submitter.
idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

Idr0168: Prediction of protein subcellular localization in single cells from www.nature.com/articles/s41... by Zhang et al. Images in idr0168 are OME-Zarrs converted by the submitter.
idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

Two new protein localization studies available in the Image Data Resource (IDR, idr.openmicroscopy.org).

BioFile Finder allows the browsing of image thumbnails which enables launching of images in full view via a range of image viewers. We hope this is useful!

GitHub - IDR/idr0170-rose-mibitof Contribute to IDR/idr0170-rose-mibitof development by creating an account on GitHub.

For a list of the OME-Zarr images in idr0170, see github.com/IDR/idr0170-... where the metadata can be viewed in BioFile Finder (bff.allencell.org) - use Chrome!

Example idr0170 image shown in OME-NGFF-Validator: ome.github.io/ome-ngff-val...

This public object storage access without a server is highly scalable, allowing IDR to support more users while continuing to make the data searchable and browsable through the IDR server. IDR is now increasingly requesting that all new submissions to IDR convert their data into OME-Zarr format.

This is the first study in IDR where the OME-Zarr images are loaded in OMERO using the omero-zarr-pixel-buffer extension. The data is hosted on public object storage and can be accessed directly by the many tools and viewers that support the cloud-optimised OME-Zarr format.

Idr0170: Released ahead of its publication - Imaging Mass Cytometry Dataset of Small-Cell Lung Cancer tumors and tumor microenvironments by Rose et al. Images in idr0170 are OME-Zarrs converted by the submitter.
idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

New Imaging Mass Cytometry data in the Image Data Resource (IDR, idr.openmicroscopy.org).

The Open Microscopy Environment A consortium of universities, research labs, industry and developers producing open-source software and format standards for microscopy data.

Dear all

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 8.3.0 which includes several fixes and improvements.

The full list of changes included in this release are on www.openmicroscopy.org/2025/08/05/b.... Please use image.sc in case of questions or problems.

New landing pages have landed for every study in the Image Data Resource (IDR)!
Now, you can easily see clear details of the study - including how to download the data!
To access the landing page for a study, just click on its thumbnail from the homepage (idr.openmicroscopy.org).

New study released in the Image Data Resource (IDR, idr.openmicroscopy.org) today!

An embryonic patterning study from elifesciences.org/articles/78902 by Clark et al.
idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

The #globalbioimaging couse at IISER Pune continued with an intense and well-received OMERO workshop part 1. The parts 2 and 3 of the OMERO workshoop to come tomorrow.

On the #globalbioimaging course globalbioimaging.org/internationa... at IISER Pune, India, the discussions go on after the talk about Microscopy Facility Data Management strategies.

Screenshot of the PDF available at https://cloud.gerbi-gmb.de/s/6LrYfMByymPnHP5/download/2025_OME-Zarr_sw_developer.pdf

Screenshot of the PDF available at https://cloud.gerbi-gmb.de/s/y4rBGFM6dXn8Jkr/download/2025_OME-Zarr_web_developer.pdf

🚀 We’re hiring again! Join @gerbi-gmb.de as a Software Developer!

💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions

🌍 Collaborate globally

🎯 Contribute to open science through #OME #Zarr

📣 Tell your #NGFF friends.

Remote, full-time. Apply by 30 June 2025: All submissions via bit.ly/gerbi-jobs-2...

🤩

On #ELMI2025 an ad-hoc Question&Answer session on OMERO went very well, lively discussion with lot of tips on finding the optimal path to successful OMERO adoption in an Institution.

Image.sc Forum Scientific Community Image Forum is a discussion forum for scientific image software sponsored by the Center for Open Bioimage Analysis (COBA).

Dear all

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 8.2.0 which includes several fixes and improvements.

The full list of changes included in this release are on www.openmicroscopy.org/2025/05/28/b.... Please use image.sc in case of questions or problems.

New release: napari-omero 0.5.0 😀@openmicroscopy.org @napari.org thanks to some big contributions from @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social , @will-j-moore.bsky.social and of course @talley.codes. Some features in spotlight 👇

First: napari-omero now supports lazy loading of image pyramids from OMERO🔺:

3. Gene expression data from onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Alzu'bi et al.
idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...