Open Microscopy Environment
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
OME at LOCI – Software – OME plugins for ImageJ

ImageJ is a public domain image analysis program written by Wayne Rasband of NIH. We have created ImageJ plugins for interacting with an OME database, including the ability to upload images to the database, as well as search, browse, and download images from it, using the OME-Java API for remote access to OME.

The OME plugins were written by Melissa Linkert based on code originally by Phil Huettl.


Features

OME plugins for ImageJ

The OME plugins have been used to download and visualize several datasets from an OME database. The search results window shows details of all datasets matching the specified criteria.

The "Download from OME or OMERO" plugin is capable of accessing an OME Perl or OMERO database and searching it for images matching the specified criteria. It brings up a list of matches through which the user can browse, and select which to actually download. It is capable of downloading both pixels and some associated metadata.

The "Upload to OME" plugin uploads pixel data to an OME Perl database.


Obtaining the plugin

The OME plugins are available for download as part of the LOCI Tools complete bundle.


Installation

Place the file in your ImageJ plugins folder. To access the plugins, choose "Download from OME" or "Upload to OME" from the LOCI submenu of ImageJ's Plugins menu.

The OME plugins require OME 2.6.0 or newer. They will not work properly with OME 2.4.0.

The OME plugins can also download images from OMERO.



Last update: Thursday, April 17, 2008