#OME2026 has come to an end—what an inspiring and collaborative few days. Huge thanks to @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social for documenting the meeting so thoroughly—definitely worth a look back through their posts! But first, enjoy the wrap-up video presented already during the closing session! 🤩

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

🚀 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...

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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.

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🔺:

Take a look at the three new studies released in the Image Data Resource (IDR, idr.openmicroscopy.org). 1. 3D-SIM data from www.nature.com/articles/s41... by Szabo et al. idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

If you train people in ImageJ, Fiji, whatever, even if it isn't your day job, please let us know, and please share this post! Thanks a ton, we really appreciate it. (2/2) forms.gle/C8dUpg8qZkbD... #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis

🚗🧪 We're coming to the East Coast! We're proud to be a part of the @openmicroscopy.org Environment Community Meeting at @mblscience.bsky.social on Apr. 28 to May 1. 🎟️ Register by Mar. 17 to join us in person: www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/ome-2... @bioimagingna.bsky.social

Dear all Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 8.1.1 which includes several fixes and improvements. The full list of changes included in this release are on [the openmicroscopy website](www.openmicroscopy.org/2025/03/05/b...). Please use image.sc in case of questions or problems.

2. Large-scale hyperspectral #electronmicroscopy data from www.nature.com/articles/s44... by Duinkerken et al. idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

Take a look at the two new studies released in the Image Data Resource (IDR, idr.openmicroscopy.org). 1. Light sheet fluorescence microscopy of Tribolium castaneum embryos from journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... by Strobl et al. idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

And now, support for Zarr v3 & sharding is released as an OME-Zarr specification! 🎉 forum.image.sc/t/ngff-0-5-r... #NGFF #BioImaging #Formats @openmicroscopy.org @zarr.dev

DANDI now supports embargoing Zarr-based data! Zarrs (@zarr.dev) are cloud-optimized for N-dimensional arrays. Zarr v3 adds sharding to reduce file counts. Check out @openmicroscopy.org's OME-Zarr challenge to generate 1 PB of v3 data: github.com/ome/ome2024-ngff-challenge

🎉 Zarr-Python 3 is here! 🎉 - Full support for Zarr v3 spec - Chunk-sharding for more efficient data storage - Major performance boosts with async I/O & parallel compression 💻 pip install --upgrade zarr 💻 conda install --channel conda-forge zarr Blog post: https://buff.ly/3C3OwYw

Want to help build the future of #bioimaging software?

🚀My rework of the annotation scripts is now officially part of OMERO.scripts 🚀 github.com/ome/omero-sc... Follow the guide to get started with them: omero-guides.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sc... Many thanks to @will-j-moore.bsky.social @openmicroscopy.org and all the Beta Testers.

OMERO.figure 7.2.0 just released with lots of new features, including "live" interactive inset panels, panel borders, HiLo checkbox, panel flipping, ROI Fill-Colour, ROI Points... Full list at github.com/ome/omero-fi... Thanks to @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social, Rémy Dornier, Tehmina Enayat & Jens Wendt!

At HMC 2024, Galaxy showcased how its platform advances FAIR bioimaging workflows: 🔬Building FAIR pipelines for metadata annotation 💡Integrating OMERO for seamless image analysis & metadata enrichment 🔧Combining image processing & data management in one workflow galaxyproject.org/news/2024-11...

Increasing interoperability of bioimage dataset resources is the main goal of @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social's project at the 3rd #de.NBI #BioHackathon in Kassel - already in full swing. A great opportunity to develop ideas and solutions #RDF #IDR #OMERO #RO-crate and lots of fun hacking for FAIR data.

See the things you miss if you’re not on #BlueSci… #Galaxy 🤝 #OMERO

The one-day OMERO workshop given as a part of the Imaging course organized by CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, just ended. Very intesive workshop with lively discussions about IDR metadata and OMERO.figure.

Messing around with the new #Blender 4.3 volume scatter modes with #microscopynodes, while at the #OME #Zarr hackathon! 😁🤩 Great info and work on the upcoming features of Zarr here :D Transforms, collections, and more! 🙏

#OME is now verified on @bsky.app! Follow to find out more about #Bio-Formats, #OMERO, #OME-TIFF, #OME-Zarr, #IDR, and much, much more. openmicroscopy.org

Beautiful image of chick embryo from idr0066 in @zarr.dev v3 format (OME-Zarr 0.5) viewed in vizarr hms-dbmi.github.io/vizarr/?sour.... One of a bunch we just added to idr.github.io/ome-ngff-sam...

The recent OMERO.server 5.6.14 release included a bunch of new Look-up tables listed at github.com/ome/openmicr... to add to a growling list! Thanks to Tom Boissonnet and @gerbi.bsky.social

The OME team just released OMERO.iviewer 0.15.0 which includes mobile-friendly layout on small screens github.com/ome/omero-iv...