Open Microscopy Environment
| Abbreviation | OME |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2005 |
| Founder | Jason Swedlow, Ilya Goldberg, Peter K. Sorger |
| Type | Research consortium |
| Purpose | Open tools and standards for managing and sharing microscopy image data |
| Products | OMERO; Bio-Formats; OME-TIFF; OME-Zarr |
| Fields | bioimage informatics; microscopy |
| Website | www |
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.