What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.17.0
September 21, 2026
We are excited to announce the release of PathViewer 3.17.0! This latest version introduces flexible channel group transfer, new Workspace Views, and improved analytical data inspection within PathViewer.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
September 21, 2026
We are pleased to announce the latest release of OMERO Plus. This release adds support for OME-Zarr 0.5 and Zarr v3, expanded public data-mining workflows, and release of omero-label for label image registration. It also ships with the latest versions of PathViewer and Glencoe’s Bio-Formats.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 8.5.0-882
September 21, 2026
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe's Bio-Formats 8.5.0-882 which includes everything from open source Bio-Formats 8.5.0 and other important updates.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.16.1
March 31, 2026
We are excited to announce the release of PathViewer 3.16.1! This version introduces enhanced mask support, improved channel controls, and expanded dataset-level annotation customization.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
March 31, 2026
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce the latest release of OMERO Plus. This release brings new administrative capabilities for SSO and storage management, and it is shipped with the latest versions of PathViewer and Glencoe's Bio-Formats.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 8.4.0-865
March 31, 2026
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe's Bio-Formats 8.4.0-865 which includes everything from open source Bio-Formats 8.4.0 and other important updates.
Transforming Pathology Workflows for Regulatory Success using OMERO Plus and PathViewer
December 19, 2025
Glencoe Software and CymaBay Therapeutics collaborated to digitally transform a pathology review workflow, which delivered on an NDA-enabling clinical trial requirement ahead of schedule.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.15.0
December 03, 2025
We are pleased to announce the release of PathViewer 3.15.0. This release delivers enhanced control over predefined annotation styles, improved navigation within OMERO Plus, and new deployment utilities.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
December 03, 2025
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce the latest release of OMERO Plus with enhanced support for OME-Zarr label images and important security and maintenance improvements.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 8.3.0-834
December 03, 2025
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe's Bio-Formats 8.3.0-834 which includes everything from open source Bio-Formats 8.3.0 and other important updates.
Glencoe's roadmap for NGFF in 2026
November 06, 2025
In preparation for the International OME-NGFF Workshop in November and as the exclusive commercial partner of the Open Microscopy Environment (OME), Glencoe is publishing its roadmap for NGFF contributions in the upcoming 6 months.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Pageant 1.6.0
October 31, 2025
We are excited to announce the release of Pageant 1.6.0, featuring a host of new capabilities and performance enhancements. This update introduces a more powerful and flexible way to create and manage populations, enhanced data visualizations, and a refreshed interface for a smoother, more efficient workflow.
OMERO Plus Hosted, now powered by Portal
October 22, 2025
In Spring, Glencoe Software announced a new offering of OMERO Plus Hosted, a fully managed service designed to simplify image data management for research organizations of any size. Now, powered by Portal, OMERO Plus Hosted provides a robust orchestration platform for scalable, end-to-end image-based assays.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.14.0
September 08, 2025
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce the release of PathViewer 3.14.0. This release includes features for smoother annotation workflows and improved end-user guidance when loading and visualizing channels, ROIs and label images.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
August 21, 2025
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce the latest release of OMERO Plus with important security fixes and dependency upgrades.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 8.2.0-810
August 21, 2025
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe's Bio-Formats 8.2.0-810 which includes everything from open source Bio-Formats 8.2.0, multiple new readers and other important updates
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.13.0
June 10, 2025
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce the release of PathViewer 3.13.0. This release focuses on increasing user flexibility to configure annotation workflows, as well as providing significant maintenance improvements to enhance user experience.
A roadmap for analytical data management with OMERO Plus in 2025
May 12, 2025
Across 2025, Glencoe Software is making improvements to the performance and usability of analytical data managed within OMERO Plus, including building new inferfaces for sharing and mining rich datasets from a web browser.
Expanding the OMERO Plus ecosystem
March 03, 2025
Leveraging infrastructure as code, Glencoe Software is enabling greater availability for OMERO Plus around the world. Hear more about what is coming in 2025.
What’s New in OMERO Plus and Glencoe's Bio-Formats 8.0.1-761
February 19, 2025
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce the latest release of OMERO Plus and Bio-Formats, including a new reader for Molecular Devices’ JDCE.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.12.0
February 14, 2025
Thank you for using PathViewer! This release delivers greater flexibility for collaborative annotation workflows and addresses scalability challenges in multiplexed spatial biology.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.11.0
October 02, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of PathViewer 3.11.0, bringing new features related to analytical data handling.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
October 02, 2024
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce the latest release of OMERO Plus, highlighting open source contributions for the handling of large analytical datasets within OMERO.tables and enhanced support for image archival, as well as new high-content format support.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 7.3.1-710
October 02, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe Software's Bio-Formats 7.3.1, which includes new readers and everything in open source Bio-Formats 7.3.1 from the Open Microscopy Environment.
October 02, 2024
OMERO Plus automatically ingests plate image and metadata from Revvity’s Opera Phenix, Molecular Devices’ ImageXpress, and Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Cellomics
Expanding OMERO Plus for orchestration of complex analysis workflows
September 18, 2024
At this year’s SBI2 conference in Boston, Glencoe Software are happy to present our work towards a new suite of tools for OMERO Plus aimed at managing complex analysis workflows within OMERO Plus.
Beyond the Sunset - Exploring New Horizons with OMERO Plus after Columbus™
July 01, 2024
Glencoe Software presents a supported, vendor-neutral and domain-agnostic alternative to the sunset of Revvity™’s Columbus™ and Columbus+™ offerings.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.10.0
June 24, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of PathViewer 3.10.0, bringing a host of new features and performance improvements designed to enable new workflows.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
June 24, 2024
This release of OMERO Plus has substantial performance improvements for a variety of use cases, including Glencoe’s cloud-native data management solutions.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 7.3.0-666
June 24, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe Software's Bio-Formats 7.3.0, which includes everything in open source Bio-Formats 7.2.0 and 7.3.0 from the Open Microscopy Environment.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s NGFF-Converter 2.0
May 09, 2024
Glencoe Software are happy to announce the latest release of NGFF-Converter. Thanks to our customers and those in the bioimaging community for your use of and feedback on this tool for the conversion of bioimaging data into the open standard formats OME-NGFF and OME-TIFF.
Optimizations for reading cloud-native bioimaging data with OME-Zarr
April 15, 2024
Since the original release of the specification for the Next Generation File Format (NGFF) OME-Zarr, Glencoe Software has been dedicated to building implementations of these concepts. Now has come the time to optimize for the particular requirements of bio-imaging data and the ways we work with it.
March 04, 2024
Glencoe Software recently presented the latest use cases for OMERO Plus at SLAS in Boston, and here we highlight in detail new solutions for Spatial Transcriptomics data management and mining.
How data structure impacts the scalability of bioimaging workflows
March 01, 2024
In a recent workshop on tissue clearing, hosted at the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging, we spoke about considerations for the structure of imaging data within the OME-Zarr file format which can impact analysis and visualization workflows, in particular for multi TB lightsheet or other 3D imaging acquisitions.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.9.0
February 28, 2024
We are happy to release PathViewer 3.9.0, which includes new features and performance improvements. Whether you're focused on streamlined viewing, annotation, or data mining, we believe this update will improve your workflows with PathViewer.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
February 28, 2024
The latest OMERO Plus release includes both new features and performance improvements.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 7.1.0-651
February 28, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe Software's Bio-Formats 7.1.0, which includes everything in open source Bio-Formats 7.1.0 from the Open Microscopy Environment.
Glencoe Software Product Roadmap 2024
December 15, 2023
As another year of data management comes to a close, we at Glencoe Software are reflecting on the successes achieved this year and the exciting challenges we will address in the upcoming year.
Pre-built Ice binaries for OMERO
December 08, 2023
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce a set of pre-built Ice 3.6 binaries and wheel packages available for the deployment of OMERO server and clients.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
December 01, 2023
The latest OMERO Plus release includes both new features as well as important dependency upgrades.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 7.0.0-624
December 01, 2023
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe Software's Bio-Formats 7.0.0-624, which includes everything in open source Bio-Formats 7.0.0 from the Open Microscopy Environment.
Open-Source Image Analysis Connectivity for OMERO
November 08, 2023
Glencoe Software presents updated interoperability between OMERO and open-source image analysis tools, such as CellProfiler.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.8.0
September 29, 2023
We are thrilled to release PathViewer 3.8.0, which includes new features, bug fixes and performance improvements. Whether you're focused on handling highly multiplexed images or seeking streamlined RGB visualisation controls, we believe this update will improve your workflows with PathViewer.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
July 14, 2023
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce a variety of new features added to the latest OMERO Plus release - including support for channel histograms, improved version reporting, and support for Bio-Formats 6.13.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s Bio-Formats 6.13.0-585
July 14, 2023
We are excited to announce the release of Glencoe Software's Bio-Formats 6.13.0-585, which includes everything in open source Bio-Formats 6.13.0 from the Open Microscopy Environment.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s NGFF-Converter 1.1.5
July 10, 2023
Glencoe Software are happy to announce the latest release of NGFF-Converter. Thanks to our customers and those in the bioimaging community for your use of and feedback on this tool for the conversion of bioimaging data into the open standard formats OME-NGFF and OME-TIFF.
Updates to OMERO Plus support on CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu
June 26, 2023
Glencoe Software will stop providing support for upgrades to OMERO Plus installations on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 on June 30, 2024 and is no longer supporting upgrades to installations on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.7.0
June 06, 2023
We're thrilled to announce the release of PathViewer 3.7.0, packed with new features to enhance usability and efficiency. This update includes significant improvements such as an option to disable pixel interpolation, performance improvements for label images, and several other enhancements!
Synchronizing the data science workflow with data management at scale
May 15, 2023
Glencoe Software presents the omero2pandas package, designed to integrate with popular Python data science tools and enable analysis workflows which utilize tabular data stored on an OMERO server.
Publishing data with OMERO Plus
May 01, 2023
Modern science is a global practice. Academic collaborations, multinational corporations, and national labs are all examples where science performed in a single location must be shared or published across the world. While the definition of data publishing might differ for these various entities, the complexity and challenge of sharing GByte- and TByte-sized imaging datasets along with essential metadata and analytics are common problems shared by all.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s OMERO Plus
March 22, 2023
Glencoe Software is pleased to announce a variety of new features added to the latest OMERO Plus release - including improved support for cloud storage, single sign-on, and analytical data mining workflows.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.6.0
March 06, 2023
We're excited to announce the latest release of PathViewer 3.6.0 with several new features aimed at improving user experience and productivity. These features include advanced rendering options and new keyboard shortcuts for image navigation!
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s NGFF-Converter 1.1.4
January 10, 2023
Glencoe Software is glad to announce the latest release of NGFF-Converter, with new features and bug fixes. Thanks to our customers and those in the bioimaging community for your use of and feedback on this new tool for the conversion of bioimaging data into the open standard formats OME-NGFF and OME-TIFF.
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.5.0
December 08, 2022
Please find below the highlights of PathViewer 3.5.0.
Glencoe Software Product Roadmap 2023
November 18, 2022
As the year comes to a close, Glencoe Software is looking back on the progress made in 2022 and how this lays the foundation for an exciting product roadmap for 2023. First, we summarize some key challenges and how our technology developments in 2022 aim to address them. Then, we propose our product roadmap for 2023 and its basis in these core technologies. As always, we look forward to your feedback.
Utilising OME-NGFF to achieve scalable cloud-based analysis with CellProfiler
September 20, 2022
Glencoe Software presents findings on scalability of image analysis workflows in the cloud using OMERO Plus, OME-NGFF, and CellProfiler
What’s New in Glencoe Software’s PathViewer 3.4.0
July 12, 2022
Thank you for using PathViewer! We have worked hard on the new features in this update. Please find below some highlights to the new per-user functionality for channel groups, label image displays, and ROI display order.
What's New in Glencoe Software's PathViewer 3.3.5
April 18, 2022
Thank you for using PathViewer, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter. We have worked hard on adding new features to this update while listening closely to your feedback, and we have identified and resolved a number of issues.
April 01, 2022
OME-NGFF is a data format technology that addresses the demands of image processing workflows at scale and in the cloud.
January 31, 2022
Glencoe Software, the Open Microscopy Environment, and other members of the bioimaging community recently published a paper in Nature Methods describing the motivations and specification for the "Next-Generation" of open image formats like OME-TIFF. Here, we highlight Glencoe Software's perspective on and ongoing work toward adopting and advancing Next-Generation File Formats (NGFF).
What's New in Glencoe Software's PathViewer 3.3
December 13, 2021
Thank you for using PathViewer, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter. We have worked hard on adding new features to this update while listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. Please find below the highlights of this update.
Converting Whole Slide Images to OME-TIFF: A New Workflow
December 09, 2019
Glencoe Software and the OME team are pleased to announce a new collection of command line tools for converting whole slide images to pyramidal OME-TIFF.
Open Data for Digital Pathology
May 31, 2019
Digital pathology is rapidly growing and also evolving, with many new innovations and capabilities appearing weekly.
December 14, 2018
Glencoe Software is proud of its contribution to making the JCB DataViewer serve as a prime example of the value of open image data.
Driving Digital Pathology Innovation - What’s Next?
March 28, 2017
What’s the next big advancement in digital pathology? We think it centers around multiplexed imaging and improved data management. Read on.
March 24, 2016
Some thoughts from our VP of Software Engineering regarding the future of PathViewer and OMERO Plus for Digital Pathology
