Sebastien Besson's Contact Details

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Open Microscopy Environment

Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom • 3 Employees
Research

The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) develops open-source software and data format standards for the storage and manipulation of biological microscopy data. It is is a multi-site collaborative effort among academic laboratories and a number of commercial entities, that produces open tools to support data management for biological light microscopy. Designed to interact with existing commercial software, all OME formats and software are free, and all OME source code is available under the GNU General public license or through commercial license from Glencoe Software.In 2011 the OME consortium was awarded a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (Ref: 095931). This Award provided support for the continued development of the OME Data Model, Bio-Formats file translation library and OMERO application in Dundee, as well as funding development positions in nine other laboratories. The OME commercial partner is: Glencoe Software, Inc., Seattle, WA, USAThe members of the OME consortium are: Prof Jason Swedlow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, Dundee Prof Richard Baldock, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh Prof Gaudenz Danuser, Harvard Medical School Dr Ilan Davis, University of Oxford Mr Kevin Elicieri, University of Wisconsin-Madison Prof Paul French, Imperial College London Dr Ilya Goldberg, NIA- NIH Dr Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University Dr Spencer Shorte, Institut Pasteur Dr Gianluigi Zanetti, CRS4, SardiniaThe OME Logo is a registered trademark of Glencoe Software, Inc.