The fantastic OME-ZARR Hackathon 2026 its coming to end soon ...
One the the outcomes is a new @napari.org plugin that allows to open images as "virtual OME-ZARRs".
pypi.org/project/napa...
Details: forum.image.sc/t/2026-ome-z...
Thx to @joelluethi.bsky.social for organizing it!
One the the outcomes is a new @napari.org plugin that allows to open images as "virtual OME-ZARRs".
pypi.org/project/napa...
Details: forum.image.sc/t/2026-ome-z...
Thx to @joelluethi.bsky.social for organizing it!
2026 OME-Zarr Hackathon Zurich - Virtual OME-ZARR - napari-virtual-reader
# Virtual OME-Zarr in napari: viewing CZI and other formats without converting the pixels Hi everyone, What if we could use an OME-Zarr view of an existing image file without first converting it int...
forum.image.sc
November 6, 2026 at 10:53 AM
The fantastic OME-ZARR Hackathon 2026 its coming to end soon ...
One the the outcomes is a new @napari.org plugin that allows to open images as "virtual OME-ZARRs".
pypi.org/project/napa...
Details: forum.image.sc/t/2026-ome-z...
Thx to @joelluethi.bsky.social for organizing it!
One the the outcomes is a new @napari.org plugin that allows to open images as "virtual OME-ZARRs".
pypi.org/project/napa...
Details: forum.image.sc/t/2026-ome-z...
Thx to @joelluethi.bsky.social for organizing it!
We've had an amazing 2026 OME-Zarr hackathon week! 63 participants from 5 continents, over 20 guests from across Switzerland, dozens of topic groups, stacks of Pizzas and over 30 distinct hackathon outcomes.
November 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
We've had an amazing 2026 OME-Zarr hackathon week! 63 participants from 5 continents, over 20 guests from across Switzerland, dozens of topic groups, stacks of Pizzas and over 30 distinct hackathon outcomes.
Do you want to learn about the current state of the OME-Zarr specification? Watch the OME-Zarr roadmap presentation by @joshmoore.bsky.social and the overview of current RFCs (spec change proposals) presented by their authors here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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November 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Do you want to learn about the current state of the OME-Zarr specification? Watch the OME-Zarr roadmap presentation by @joshmoore.bsky.social and the overview of current RFCs (spec change proposals) presented by their authors here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I might have waved at you mid-flight… writing from BKK on my way back from the OME-Zarr hackathon in Zurich!
November 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I might have waved at you mid-flight… writing from BKK on my way back from the OME-Zarr hackathon in Zurich!
Today is the start of the 2026 OME-Zarr hackathon week here in Zurich:
- 63 participants from 5 continents
- 5 intense day of pushing the OME-Zarr spec
- Snacks, drinks & rubics cubes
- 63 participants from 5 continents
- 5 intense day of pushing the OME-Zarr spec
- Snacks, drinks & rubics cubes
November 2, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Today is the start of the 2026 OME-Zarr hackathon week here in Zurich:
- 63 participants from 5 continents
- 5 intense day of pushing the OME-Zarr spec
- Snacks, drinks & rubics cubes
- 63 participants from 5 continents
- 5 intense day of pushing the OME-Zarr spec
- Snacks, drinks & rubics cubes
Hi all,
Right in time for the OME-ZARR Hackathon 2026 (see: biovisioncenter.notion.site/2026-ome-zar...)
- stream pixels from ZEN into multi-dim array and display live
- stream pixels from ZEN directly into OME-ZARR (see video)
pypi.org/project/napa...
Right in time for the OME-ZARR Hackathon 2026 (see: biovisioncenter.notion.site/2026-ome-zar...)
- stream pixels from ZEN into multi-dim array and display live
- stream pixels from ZEN directly into OME-ZARR (see video)
pypi.org/project/napa...
November 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Hi all,
Right in time for the OME-ZARR Hackathon 2026 (see: biovisioncenter.notion.site/2026-ome-zar...)
- stream pixels from ZEN into multi-dim array and display live
- stream pixels from ZEN directly into OME-ZARR (see video)
pypi.org/project/napa...
Right in time for the OME-ZARR Hackathon 2026 (see: biovisioncenter.notion.site/2026-ome-zar...)
- stream pixels from ZEN into multi-dim array and display live
- stream pixels from ZEN directly into OME-ZARR (see video)
pypi.org/project/napa...
Next stop: Tokyo! 🇯🇵
After this amazing week of collaboration at the OME-Zarr hackathon, I'm off to Japan for my first ISO meeting on microscopy metadata, representing @gerbi-gmb.de — Opportunities to bring together perspectives from across the world are so critical. Thanks to one and all! 🌍 🌎 🌏
After this amazing week of collaboration at the OME-Zarr hackathon, I'm off to Japan for my first ISO meeting on microscopy metadata, representing @gerbi-gmb.de — Opportunities to bring together perspectives from across the world are so critical. Thanks to one and all! 🌍 🌎 🌏
We've had an amazing 2026 OME-Zarr hackathon week! 63 participants from 5 continents, over 20 guests from across Switzerland, dozens of topic groups, stacks of Pizzas and over 30 distinct hackathon outcomes.
November 8, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Next stop: Tokyo! 🇯🇵
After this amazing week of collaboration at the OME-Zarr hackathon, I'm off to Japan for my first ISO meeting on microscopy metadata, representing @gerbi-gmb.de — Opportunities to bring together perspectives from across the world are so critical. Thanks to one and all! 🌍 🌎 🌏
After this amazing week of collaboration at the OME-Zarr hackathon, I'm off to Japan for my first ISO meeting on microscopy metadata, representing @gerbi-gmb.de — Opportunities to bring together perspectives from across the world are so critical. Thanks to one and all! 🌍 🌎 🌏
Want to learn more about what happened at the hackathon? From progress on the OME-NGFF spec through the RFCs to many new OME-Zarr workflows, from viewers to all flavors of virtualization. Find out more about the over 30 hackathon outcomes here: forum.image.sc/t/2026-ome-z...
2026 OME-Zarr hackathon: Overview of outcomes
We've had an amazing 2026 OME-Zarr hackathon week! 63 participants from over 5 continents, over 20 guests from across Switzerland, dozens of topic groups, stacks of Pizzas and over 30 distinct hackath...
forum.image.sc
November 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Want to learn more about what happened at the hackathon? From progress on the OME-NGFF spec through the RFCs to many new OME-Zarr workflows, from viewers to all flavors of virtualization. Find out more about the over 30 hackathon outcomes here: forum.image.sc/t/2026-ome-z...
I presented "Your friendly Fiji users' guide to #N5 and #OMEZarr" at #I2KxBINA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-e... . Metadata is as important as the thumbnail suggests!
I2KxBINA 2026 Community Congress | Your Friendly Fiji users guide to N5 and OME-Zarr
YouTube video by BioImaging North America
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I presented "Your friendly Fiji users' guide to #N5 and #OMEZarr" at #I2KxBINA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-e... . Metadata is as important as the thumbnail suggests!
Open the files your instruments write. Right in your browser.
Microscopy images, HCS plates and whole slides. OME-TIFF, CZI, Opera Phenix, Yokogawa, SVS, NDPI, MRXS, DICOM and more. Nothing to install, nothing to convert. Built on OME-Zarr.
find-nuclei.github.io
Microscopy images, HCS plates and whole slides. OME-TIFF, CZI, Opera Phenix, Yokogawa, SVS, NDPI, MRXS, DICOM and more. Nothing to install, nothing to convert. Built on OME-Zarr.
find-nuclei.github.io
November 8, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Open the files your instruments write. Right in your browser.
Microscopy images, HCS plates and whole slides. OME-TIFF, CZI, Opera Phenix, Yokogawa, SVS, NDPI, MRXS, DICOM and more. Nothing to install, nothing to convert. Built on OME-Zarr.
find-nuclei.github.io
Microscopy images, HCS plates and whole slides. OME-TIFF, CZI, Opera Phenix, Yokogawa, SVS, NDPI, MRXS, DICOM and more. Nothing to install, nothing to convert. Built on OME-Zarr.
find-nuclei.github.io
Note: there will be **no OME-Zarr office hours this week** as we prepare for the next week's OME-Zarr hackathon. *But* the good news is, it's a great time to learn about OME-Zarr: the "State of OME-Zarr" presentations from the hackathon can be attended remotely! Details in thread:
Are you curious about current developments in OME-Zarr? Want to get an overview of how the specification is evolving through the current RFCs? Or hear what people are working on with OME-Zarrs?
Join us virtually next Monday, November 2nd, 2pm CET for the intro talks of the OME-Zarr hackathon
Join us virtually next Monday, November 2nd, 2pm CET for the intro talks of the OME-Zarr hackathon
October 28, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Note: there will be **no OME-Zarr office hours this week** as we prepare for the next week's OME-Zarr hackathon. *But* the good news is, it's a great time to learn about OME-Zarr: the "State of OME-Zarr" presentations from the hackathon can be attended remotely! Details in thread:
Are you curious about current developments in OME-Zarr? Want to get an overview of how the specification is evolving through the current RFCs? Or hear what people are working on with OME-Zarrs?
Join us virtually next Monday, November 2nd, 2pm CET for the intro talks of the OME-Zarr hackathon
Join us virtually next Monday, November 2nd, 2pm CET for the intro talks of the OME-Zarr hackathon
October 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Are you curious about current developments in OME-Zarr? Want to get an overview of how the specification is evolving through the current RFCs? Or hear what people are working on with OME-Zarrs?
Join us virtually next Monday, November 2nd, 2pm CET for the intro talks of the OME-Zarr hackathon
Join us virtually next Monday, November 2nd, 2pm CET for the intro talks of the OME-Zarr hackathon
OME-Zarr labels in Kiln preview. Little by little closing remaining feature gaps. #WebGPU #OME-Zarr #VolumeRendering #CryoET
October 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
OME-Zarr labels in Kiln preview. Little by little closing remaining feature gaps. #WebGPU #OME-Zarr #VolumeRendering #CryoET
Microscopy and astronomy
- Multichannel OME-Zarr and OME-TIFF: channel contrast, z-slices, time points
- Draw regions or click cells to classify them, export GeoJSON that QuPath reads
- FITS cutouts with science/reference/difference triplets for vetting transients
- Multichannel OME-Zarr and OME-TIFF: channel contrast, z-slices, time points
- Draw regions or click cells to classify them, export GeoJSON that QuPath reads
- FITS cutouts with science/reference/difference triplets for vetting transients
October 29, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Microscopy and astronomy
- Multichannel OME-Zarr and OME-TIFF: channel contrast, z-slices, time points
- Draw regions or click cells to classify them, export GeoJSON that QuPath reads
- FITS cutouts with science/reference/difference triplets for vetting transients
- Multichannel OME-Zarr and OME-TIFF: channel contrast, z-slices, time points
- Draw regions or click cells to classify them, export GeoJSON that QuPath reads
- FITS cutouts with science/reference/difference triplets for vetting transients
📣 The first version of RFC-10: NGFF Governance and the Editorial Board is now live, and we are inviting the community to comment on the proposal and shape its final form. If you build or use OME-Zarr, we would love your feedback!
Thread 🧵
📄 ngff.openmicroscopy.org/rfc/10/index...
Thread 🧵
📄 ngff.openmicroscopy.org/rfc/10/index...
RFC-10: NGFF Governance and the Editorial Board — NGFF documentation
ngff.openmicroscopy.org
October 27, 2026 at 5:54 PM
📣 The first version of RFC-10: NGFF Governance and the Editorial Board is now live, and we are inviting the community to comment on the proposal and shape its final form. If you build or use OME-Zarr, we would love your feedback!
Thread 🧵
📄 ngff.openmicroscopy.org/rfc/10/index...
Thread 🧵
📄 ngff.openmicroscopy.org/rfc/10/index...
Do you want to learn about multiplexed image analysis using OME-Zarr? Tomorrow, @rhornb.bsky.social , @nrepina.bsky.social & Flurin Sturzenegger will share their learnings about building workflows around multiplexed image analysis, see www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup, October 2026
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch
October 26, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Do you want to learn about multiplexed image analysis using OME-Zarr? Tomorrow, @rhornb.bsky.social , @nrepina.bsky.social & Flurin Sturzenegger will share their learnings about building workflows around multiplexed image analysis, see www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
As part of that, on Monday afternoon, November 2nd from 2pm CET onwards, we'll have an exciting set of introduction presentations about the state of OME-Zarr, current OME-Zarr RFCs (change proposals to the spec) and topic pitches to be worked on at the hackathon.
October 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
As part of that, on Monday afternoon, November 2nd from 2pm CET onwards, we'll have an exciting set of introduction presentations about the state of OME-Zarr, current OME-Zarr RFCs (change proposals to the spec) and topic pitches to be worked on at the hackathon.
Is anything missing from this proposal? We want to hear from implementers, tool developers, and users!
Write a review on the GitHub PR at github.com/ome/ngff/pul...
Thanks to everyone contributing to shape OME-Zarr! 💙
#NGFF #OpenScience #Microscopy
Write a review on the GitHub PR at github.com/ome/ngff/pul...
Thanks to everyone contributing to shape OME-Zarr! 💙
#NGFF #OpenScience #Microscopy
RFC-10: propose NGFF editorial board by joshmoore · Pull Request #559 · ome/ngff
As agreed during the OME2026 community meeting. For review by the OME Management Group.
see: https://bit.ly/ome2026-gov-proposal
cc: @vuhlmann
github.com
October 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Is anything missing from this proposal? We want to hear from implementers, tool developers, and users!
Write a review on the GitHub PR at github.com/ome/ngff/pul...
Thanks to everyone contributing to shape OME-Zarr! 💙
#NGFF #OpenScience #Microscopy
Write a review on the GitHub PR at github.com/ome/ngff/pul...
Thanks to everyone contributing to shape OME-Zarr! 💙
#NGFF #OpenScience #Microscopy
Next week, November 2nd to 6th, we're hosting the 4th annual OME-Zarr hackathon in Zurich, bringing over 60 developers together to push the next generation file format specification for bioimaging forward together.
October 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Next week, November 2nd to 6th, we're hosting the 4th annual OME-Zarr hackathon in Zurich, bringing over 60 developers together to push the next generation file format specification for bioimaging forward together.
Why now? The road to OME-Zarr 1.0 involves several interdependent technical decisions, some of them requiring a clear yes or no.
RFC-1 had only pencilled in a single editor, @joshmoore.bsky.social. To move forward at pace, we need a defined group of people with a clear mandate to make decisions.
RFC-1 had only pencilled in a single editor, @joshmoore.bsky.social. To move forward at pace, we need a defined group of people with a clear mandate to make decisions.
October 27, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Why now? The road to OME-Zarr 1.0 involves several interdependent technical decisions, some of them requiring a clear yes or no.
RFC-1 had only pencilled in a single editor, @joshmoore.bsky.social. To move forward at pace, we need a defined group of people with a clear mandate to make decisions.
RFC-1 had only pencilled in a single editor, @joshmoore.bsky.social. To move forward at pace, we need a defined group of people with a clear mandate to make decisions.
You can register for it here: forms.gle/rm8tPZVGC589...
And find the Zoom link here: uzh.zoom.us/j/6293492858...
And find the Zoom link here: uzh.zoom.us/j/6293492858...
2026 OME-Zarr Hackathon application
The application window for in-person attendance is closed. Applicants will be informed by the end of September about getting a spot at the hackathon. You can still sign up for virtual participation on...
forms.gle
October 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
You can register for it here: forms.gle/rm8tPZVGC589...
And find the Zoom link here: uzh.zoom.us/j/6293492858...
And find the Zoom link here: uzh.zoom.us/j/6293492858...
We took a break from advertising these but we are still holding weekly OME-Zarr office hours! Ask @jni.codes or @joshmoore.bsky.social anything about OME-Zarr on Thu Oct 22 at 9am Paris / 12:30pm Delhi / 6pm Sydney. Full details and zoom link at:
ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community#of...
ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community#of...
October 21, 2026 at 1:07 PM
We took a break from advertising these but we are still holding weekly OME-Zarr office hours! Ask @jni.codes or @joshmoore.bsky.social anything about OME-Zarr on Thu Oct 22 at 9am Paris / 12:30pm Delhi / 6pm Sydney. Full details and zoom link at:
ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community#of...
ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community#of...
No, unfortunately that is out-of-scope for the funding call. It's dedicated funding to create data corpora based on existing data. Our main goals are: i) (meta-)data standardization (based on OME-Zarr work), ii) quantifying how a given dataset affects (foundation) model training,
October 22, 2026 at 8:27 AM
No, unfortunately that is out-of-scope for the funding call. It's dedicated funding to create data corpora based on existing data. Our main goals are: i) (meta-)data standardization (based on OME-Zarr work), ii) quantifying how a given dataset affects (foundation) model training,
1. I remember Nicole’s talk at the OME-Zarr community meeting last year, it was indeed so epic that I still remember being blown away by it.
2. Fun to spot a @talley.codes and a @janfunkey.bsky.social hanging out there too. Jealous. 😊
2. Fun to spot a @talley.codes and a @janfunkey.bsky.social hanging out there too. Jealous. 😊
October 21, 2026 at 1:37 PM
1. I remember Nicole’s talk at the OME-Zarr community meeting last year, it was indeed so epic that I still remember being blown away by it.
2. Fun to spot a @talley.codes and a @janfunkey.bsky.social hanging out there too. Jealous. 😊
2. Fun to spot a @talley.codes and a @janfunkey.bsky.social hanging out there too. Jealous. 😊
Hi folks. Time series support will be available in Kiln soon.
Small preview below.
Cheers
#WebGPU #OME-Zarr #VolumeRendering
Small preview below.
Cheers
#WebGPU #OME-Zarr #VolumeRendering
October 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Hi folks. Time series support will be available in Kiln soon.
Small preview below.
Cheers
#WebGPU #OME-Zarr #VolumeRendering
Small preview below.
Cheers
#WebGPU #OME-Zarr #VolumeRendering