Release of Bio-Formats 5.5.0

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.5.0 which includes the following changes:

New file formats:

• Olympus OIR
  • added support for Olympus .oir data (funded by a partnership between Glencoe Software and OLYMPUS EUROPA SE & Co. KG)
• PerkinElmer Columbus
  • added support for PerkinElmer Columbus data

File format improvements:

• Andor Bio-Imaging Division (ABD) TIFF
  • fixed acquisition date formatfrom MM/dd/yyyy to dd/MM/yyyy
• Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
  • corrected logic used to determined PixelType by parsing uiBpc tags
• Hamamatsu ndpi
  • improved handling of channels in NDPIS datasets (thanks to Manuel Stritt)
• Imspector OBF
  • fix for SAXParseException when description field in metadata is empty

Documentation improvements:

• added links to public sample files for Cellomics
• added links to public sample files for InCell 3000

Full details can be found at Bio-Formats version history.

The software is available at archived downloads and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.

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