LOCI Software Overview


Software Packages

Bio-Formats is a library (and collection of ImageJ plugins) for reading and writing popular microscopy file formats, including processing and conversion of metadata into standard OME-XML structures.

CurveAlign is a standalone MATLAB package that allows users to quickly and automatically quantify the alignment of periodic structures (e.g. collagen fibers) in an image.

The Data Browser is an ImageJ plugin that facilitates quick browsing of multichannel, multi-focal plane time course datasets. It is integrated with the Bio-Formats importer plugin—as well as ImageJ's built-in hyperstack and virtual stack support—to provide multidimensional visualization capabilities across space, time and channels.

The LOCI Fiji plugins are a collection of plugins for Fiji, available from our Fiji update site.

The Fusion Event Locator & Classifier is an ImageJ macro & MATLAB function to identify fusion events in image stack & classify as proliferating or unchanging.

The Intensity Macro for Background Subtraction is customized for the image processing and analysis done by the Ogle Lab.  It prompts the user to choose a background region of interest, a percentage of background to retain and a region of interest to which the subtraction should be applied.  The intensity level to subtract from the fluorescent regions of interest is calculated by computing the level at which the background intensity histogram corresponds to the amount of background the user desires to retain.

Jar2Lib is a command line tool for generating C++ proxy classes corresponding to a Java library. We use it to generate the BF-CPP bindings for our Bio-Formats library.

SLIM Curve is an exponential curve fitting library used for Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging or FLIM and Spectral Lifetime Imaging or SLIM.  It is based on code developed by Paul Barber and his group at the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology and used for FLIM functionality in his TRI2 (Time Resolved Imaging) software. It is also used in the LOCI SLIM Plugin project.

The SLIM Plotter is a tool for interactive visualization and inspection of combined spectral lifetime (SLIM) data. It was originally developed for internal use within LOCI and the White and Keely labs, but has grown into an application that may be useful to others as well.

Threshold and Calculate Average Intensity with Brush tools Macro is customized for immunohistochemistry image analysis done in the Ogle Lab.  It is especially suited for stained tissue sections that have large areas of background interspersed between areas of signal. 

VisBio is a biological visualization tool designed for easy visualization and analysis of multidimensional image data.

As part of the development of ImageJ2, we are reworking VisBio as a collection of ImageJ plugins. There is an initial version of one such plugin, VisBio Ortho Stack, available as part of the LOCI Fiji plugins.

WiscScan is acquisition software for laser scanning microscopy, used by LOCI and our collaborators for much of our scientific research.

WiscScan Flow Cytometry is a standalone tool for flow cytometry analysis. It works as a plugin for ImageJ that enables post-acquisition analysis of flow cytometry data.

Sample Data

All sample data sent to LOCI for testing is kept confidential unless explicit permission is given. See more freely available data sets.

 

Nico Stuurman
Vale Laboratory
Image Cytometry Standard
256 x 256
42,831 bytes
8 bits per sample
Clay Glennon
UW-Madison
Leica
256 x 256
83,581 bytes
8 bits per sample
3 focal planes
Scanalytics
IPLab
650 x 515
691,397 bytes
8 bits per sample
3 channels

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions about LOCI software? Please check the F.A.Q. first.

Mailing Lists

There are several mailings lists available for discussing LOCI and OME software. For questions and comments not related to software, use our contact form. See below for information on the general LOCI Software list.

Accessing Source Code

If you are interested in the latest source code from our Subversion repository, you can check it out using the repository path:

http://dev.loci.wisc.edu/svn/software/trunk

We also have a Trac server for project management, including tasks, milestones and known issues.