Software
The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) Data Model and XML file: open tools for informatics and quantitative analysis in biological imaging
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* Corresponding author: Jason R Swedlow jason@lifesci.dundee.ac.uk
1 Image Informatics and Computational Biology Unit, Laboratory of Genetics National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 333 Cassell Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
2 Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK
3 Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Genome Biology 2005, 6:R47 doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r47
Published: 3 May 2005Abstract
The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) defines a data model and a software implementation to serve as an informatics framework for imaging in biological microscopy experiments, including representation of acquisition parameters, annotations and image analysis results. OME is designed to support high-content cell-based screening as well as traditional image analysis applications. The OME Data Model, expressed in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and realized in a traditional database, is both extensible and self-describing, allowing it to meet emerging imaging and analysis needs.