Open Microscopy Environment
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
OME at LOCI – Software – VisBio – Download

The easiest way to install VisBio is to use a platform-specific bundle. However, VisBio will run on any system that supports the Java 2 Platform, and it will run in full 3D mode on any system with an implementation of Java3D (see Setting up Java for instructions).

Version Release date Filename Size in bytes
VisBio for Windows (with Java & Java3D)  
3.40rc1 (beta version) 2009 Mar 9 visbio340rc1_win32.zip 26,085,141
3.31a (stable release) 2006 Nov 3 visbio331a_win32.zip 19,614,283
VisBio for Windows (no JRE)  
3.40rc1 (beta version) 2009 Mar 9 visbio340rc1_win32_nojre.zip 12,405,892
3.31a (stable release) 2006 Nov 3 visbio331a_win32_nojre.zip 5,935,034
VisBio for Mac OS X  
Requires 10.3 "Panther" or later. With Panther you must install Java3D first.  
3.40rc1 (beta version) 2009 Mar 9 visbio340rc1_macosx.tar.gz 12,343,737
3.31a (stable release) 2006 Nov 3 visbio331a_macosx.tar.gz 5,879,536
VisBio for Linux (with Java & Java3D)  
3.40rc1 (beta version) 2009 Mar 9 visbio340rc1_linux.tar.gz 38,045,626
3.31a (stable release) 2006 Nov 3 visbio331a_linux.tar.gz 31,557,479
VisBio cross-platform (no JRE)  
3.40rc1 (beta version) 2009 Mar 9 visbio340rc1.tar.gz 12,334,494
3.31a (stable release) 2006 Nov 3 visbio331a.tar.gz 5,872,740


Source code

VisBio is an open source project—the source code is freely accessible via our SVN repository. See these instructions for details on checking out the code.


Older versions

You can download older versions of VisBio from the FTP archive.



Last update: Wednesday, March 11, 2009