Open Microscopy Environment

Open Microscopy Environment
AbbreviationOME
Formation2005 (2005)
FounderJason Swedlow, Ilya Goldberg, Peter K. Sorger
TypeResearch consortium
PurposeOpen tools and standards for managing and sharing microscopy image data
ProductsOMERO; Bio-Formats; OME-TIFF; OME-Zarr
Fieldsbioimage informatics; microscopy
Websitewww.openmicroscopy.org

The Open Microscopy Environment, or OME, is a consortium that develops open-source infrastructure for microscopy. OME is known for maintaining the OMERO server system for managing microscopy files, the Bio-Formats library for converting proprietary file formats to interoperable alternatives as well as the image standards OME-TIFF and OME-Zarr.