This week, we're hosting the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024 at the BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich. We're bringing together 40 motivated researchers and specialist for #OMEZarr workflows, #OMEZarr Python tools & #OMEZarr Java tools. (1/3)
November 20, 2024 at 10:31 PM
This week, we're hosting the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024 at the BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich. We're bringing together 40 motivated researchers and specialist for #OMEZarr workflows, #OMEZarr Python tools & #OMEZarr Java tools. (1/3)
Where better to hear the community's thoughts on #OMEZarr!
Day 1 at #OME2026 is coming to an end with stimulating discussions during the poster session. It's been a wonderful first conference day. Looking forward to tomorrow with highlights including workshops and our keynote speaker Carole Goble. Stay tuned.
April 29, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Where better to hear the community's thoughts on #OMEZarr!
Streaming OME-Zarr data directly into syGlass for #3DThursday🌍🔬
With #syGlass v2.6.0, datasets can stream from disk, S3, or HTTPS with no massive downloads required.
Huge thanks to the community building open imaging standards:
@openmicroscopy.org
#OMEZarr #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging
With #syGlass v2.6.0, datasets can stream from disk, S3, or HTTPS with no massive downloads required.
Huge thanks to the community building open imaging standards:
@openmicroscopy.org
#OMEZarr #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging
March 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Streaming OME-Zarr data directly into syGlass for #3DThursday🌍🔬
With #syGlass v2.6.0, datasets can stream from disk, S3, or HTTPS with no massive downloads required.
Huge thanks to the community building open imaging standards:
@openmicroscopy.org
#OMEZarr #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging
With #syGlass v2.6.0, datasets can stream from disk, S3, or HTTPS with no massive downloads required.
Huge thanks to the community building open imaging standards:
@openmicroscopy.org
#OMEZarr #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging
Not going to be in Cracow for the big event so had to make do with a small impromptu @napari.org x @openmicroscopy.org #omezarr Hackathon in Bern 🔬🇨🇭 @m-albert.bsky.social @guiwitz.bsky.social
July 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Not going to be in Cracow for the big event so had to make do with a small impromptu @napari.org x @openmicroscopy.org #omezarr Hackathon in Bern 🔬🇨🇭 @m-albert.bsky.social @guiwitz.bsky.social
We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉
📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr
(1/x 🧵)
📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr
(1/x 🧵)
August 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉
📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr
(1/x 🧵)
📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr
(1/x 🧵)
Really excited to finally share this more widely.
This is exactly the kind of work we hoped the cooperative could support—helping turn strong community momentum around #OMEZarr into something more coordinated and sustained.
Very curious to hear what people think.
This is exactly the kind of work we hoped the cooperative could support—helping turn strong community momentum around #OMEZarr into something more coordinated and sustained.
Very curious to hear what people think.
Our first project is live. ✨
With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there.
More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...
With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there.
More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...
Image Cooperative’s first order of business: helping push the OME-Zarr standard forward – Image Cooperative
Announcing our first partnership and how we hope to contribute to OME-Zarr
image.coop
April 22, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Really excited to finally share this more widely.
This is exactly the kind of work we hoped the cooperative could support—helping turn strong community momentum around #OMEZarr into something more coordinated and sustained.
Very curious to hear what people think.
This is exactly the kind of work we hoped the cooperative could support—helping turn strong community momentum around #OMEZarr into something more coordinated and sustained.
Very curious to hear what people think.
It's an exciting day for #Fiji users! Now read and write @zarr.dev v3 and #OMEZarr v0.5.
Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker!
Read the details here
forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...
Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker!
Read the details here
forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...
Fiji can read and write Zarr3 & OME-Zarr v0.5 (new N5 release!)
Updating your Fiji-Latest installation will give you the newest versions of the N5 library, enabling OME-Zarr v0.5 / Zarr v3 support with sharding! What's new? Reading zarr 3 datasets (sharded and u...
forum.image.sc
July 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
It's an exciting day for #Fiji users! Now read and write @zarr.dev v3 and #OMEZarr v0.5.
Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker!
Read the details here
forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...
Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker!
Read the details here
forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...
#ELMI2025 represents 25y of bringing the light microscopy community together!
Key themes: #metadata, #OMEZarr, data platforms, #FAIR RDM and core facility challenges.
Great to see #metadata spotlight!
Join us in Brisbane for the #foundingGIDE Community Event to continue the metadata discussion!
Key themes: #metadata, #OMEZarr, data platforms, #FAIR RDM and core facility challenges.
Great to see #metadata spotlight!
Join us in Brisbane for the #foundingGIDE Community Event to continue the metadata discussion!
June 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Bugra Özdemir from @eurobioimaging.bsky.social BioHub demonstrating how to work with #OMEZarr at the #TiM2025 Conference in Münsingen. We're having a great time at TiM and are thrilled to see the power of OME-Zarr in this hands-on workshop.
March 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Bugra Özdemir from @eurobioimaging.bsky.social BioHub demonstrating how to work with #OMEZarr at the #TiM2025 Conference in Münsingen. We're having a great time at TiM and are thrilled to see the power of OME-Zarr in this hands-on workshop.
Co-organized by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social through @joshmoore.bsky.social & Christian Tischer, we're happy to see the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024 in full swing! Exciting work bringing forward #OMEZarr for #FAIR bioimage data management. Shout out to the host BioVisionCenter!
@gerbi.bsky.social #NFDI
@gerbi.bsky.social #NFDI
This week, we're hosting the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024 at the BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich. We're bringing together 40 motivated researchers and specialist for #OMEZarr workflows, #OMEZarr Python tools & #OMEZarr Java tools. (1/3)
November 21, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Co-organized by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social through @joshmoore.bsky.social & Christian Tischer, we're happy to see the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024 in full swing! Exciting work bringing forward #OMEZarr for #FAIR bioimage data management. Shout out to the host BioVisionCenter!
@gerbi.bsky.social #NFDI
@gerbi.bsky.social #NFDI
Curious about #OMEZarr?Join the Open Bioimaging Practices meet-up (online). #EuroBioImaging's Bugra Ozdemir will present EuBI-Bridge & Lorenzo Cerrone from the BioVisionCenter will present the ome-zarr-converters-tools package.
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup June 30th 2026
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www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch
June 11, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Curious about #OMEZarr?Join the Open Bioimaging Practices meet-up (online). #EuroBioImaging's Bugra Ozdemir will present EuBI-Bridge & Lorenzo Cerrone from the BioVisionCenter will present the ome-zarr-converters-tools package.
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
Time to get more into OMEZarr! 🤓💻🔬
We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉
📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr
(1/x 🧵)
📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr
(1/x 🧵)
September 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Time to get more into OMEZarr! 🤓💻🔬
Our first project is live. ✨
With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there.
More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...
With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there.
More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...
Image Cooperative’s first order of business: helping push the OME-Zarr standard forward – Image Cooperative
Announcing our first partnership and how we hope to contribute to OME-Zarr
image.coop
April 22, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Our first project is live. ✨
With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there.
More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...
With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there.
More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...
🚀 We're hiring! Join the German BioImaging Team as a Software Developer!
💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions
🌍 Collaborate globally
🎯 Contribute to open science through #OMEZarr @openmicroscopy.org
Remote, full-time. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: bit.ly/3Zrd4SR
💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions
🌍 Collaborate globally
🎯 Contribute to open science through #OMEZarr @openmicroscopy.org
Remote, full-time. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: bit.ly/3Zrd4SR
Software Developer Wanted – Join the German BioImaging Team!
German BioImaging e.V. invites applications by 31. January for a remote position as
Software Developer (m/f/d)
(100 %, pay grade 13-14 TVöD depending on experience)
Are you an enthusiastic open-...
bit.ly
December 13, 2024 at 3:43 PM
🚀 We're hiring! Join the German BioImaging Team as a Software Developer!
💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions
🌍 Collaborate globally
🎯 Contribute to open science through #OMEZarr @openmicroscopy.org
Remote, full-time. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: bit.ly/3Zrd4SR
💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions
🌍 Collaborate globally
🎯 Contribute to open science through #OMEZarr @openmicroscopy.org
Remote, full-time. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: bit.ly/3Zrd4SR
Our first #CCPvolumeEM #hackathon is underway, with some amazing merch! We're looking at building community resources and knowledge for the use of #NGFF in #volumeEM #BioImageAnalysis
#OMEZarr #OMENGFF @cosec-ukri.bsky.social
#OMEZarr #OMENGFF @cosec-ukri.bsky.social
March 12, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Our first #CCPvolumeEM #hackathon is underway, with some amazing merch! We're looking at building community resources and knowledge for the use of #NGFF in #volumeEM #BioImageAnalysis
#OMEZarr #OMENGFF @cosec-ukri.bsky.social
#OMEZarr #OMENGFF @cosec-ukri.bsky.social
Excited to be part of the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024! Big thanks to @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social, @joshmoore.bsky.social, @joelluethi.bsky.social, Christian Tischer, and the BioVisionCenter for hosting. Thrilled to see #OMEZarr pushing #FAIR bioimage #datamanagement forward!
November 21, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Excited to be part of the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024! Big thanks to @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social, @joshmoore.bsky.social, @joelluethi.bsky.social, Christian Tischer, and the BioVisionCenter for hosting. Thrilled to see #OMEZarr pushing #FAIR bioimage #datamanagement forward!
Over the past few weeks, we've been actively highlighting our projects focused on FAIR image data management and OME-Zarr. Here is a collection, we've collected the related links to the webinars on our news page for you to (re)watch anytime! 🎥🔬: bit.ly/4nHu1DL
#FAIRdata#OMEZarr#Bioimaging
#FAIRdata#OMEZarr#Bioimaging
Recent Webinars Showcasing Our FAIR Image Data Projects - German BioImaging
Website of German BioImaging - Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse. Contains also the webpages of I3D:bio, information infrastructure for BioImage Data
bit.ly
July 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Over the past few weeks, we've been actively highlighting our projects focused on FAIR image data management and OME-Zarr. Here is a collection, we've collected the related links to the webinars on our news page for you to (re)watch anytime! 🎥🔬: bit.ly/4nHu1DL
#FAIRdata#OMEZarr#Bioimaging
#FAIRdata#OMEZarr#Bioimaging
Curious about new generation image file formats (NGFF)? Join the first NGFF Café! Josh Moore, @gerbi.bsky.social, presents "#OMEZarr Roadmap: Recent Community Outcomes, v0.6 and Future Directions." All are welcome!
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
June 24, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Curious about new generation image file formats (NGFF)? Join the first NGFF Café! Josh Moore, @gerbi.bsky.social, presents "#OMEZarr Roadmap: Recent Community Outcomes, v0.6 and Future Directions." All are welcome!
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
Curious about #OMEZarr?Join the Open Bioimaging Practices meet-up (online). #EuroBioImaging's Bugra Ozdemir will present EuBI-Bridge & Lorenzo Cerrone from the BioVisionCenter will present the ome-zarr-converters-tools package.
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup June 30th 2026
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www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch
June 23, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Curious about #OMEZarr?Join the Open Bioimaging Practices meet-up (online). #EuroBioImaging's Bugra Ozdemir will present EuBI-Bridge & Lorenzo Cerrone from the BioVisionCenter will present the ome-zarr-converters-tools package.
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
🗓️ June 30, 4 pm CEST
More ⤵️
www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...
🚨 We’re hiring TWO new colleagues!
🧠 Structured Metadata Expert – Design data models, standards & annotations for #OMEZarr
🌐 Web Developer / Prototyper – Build interactive tools & demos for the community
Both fully remote. Both open science.
🔗 gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca... #RSE #OpenScience
🧠 Structured Metadata Expert – Design data models, standards & annotations for #OMEZarr
🌐 Web Developer / Prototyper – Build interactive tools & demos for the community
Both fully remote. Both open science.
🔗 gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca... #RSE #OpenScience
Career - German BioImaging
Job offers
Feel free to contact us, if you want to publish your job offer here. Project Coordinator (m/f/d, 50-100%, fully remote) at GerBI-GMB e.V.
June 2025
We are looking
gerbi-gmb.de
June 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
🚨 We’re hiring TWO new colleagues!
🧠 Structured Metadata Expert – Design data models, standards & annotations for #OMEZarr
🌐 Web Developer / Prototyper – Build interactive tools & demos for the community
Both fully remote. Both open science.
🔗 gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca... #RSE #OpenScience
🧠 Structured Metadata Expert – Design data models, standards & annotations for #OMEZarr
🌐 Web Developer / Prototyper – Build interactive tools & demos for the community
Both fully remote. Both open science.
🔗 gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca... #RSE #OpenScience
Analyse public OME‑Zarr images using models from the BioImage Model Zoo! 🦒 Join us April 16 🕐️ 13:00–15:00 CEST — a perfect fit for Python 🐍 users ready for hands‑on work. @ai4life.bsky.social
#OMEZarr #AIinScience #ImageAnalysis #Workshop
forms.gle/5hQh1BoACPaF...
#OMEZarr #AIinScience #ImageAnalysis #Workshop
forms.gle/5hQh1BoACPaF...
April 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Analyse public OME‑Zarr images using models from the BioImage Model Zoo! 🦒 Join us April 16 🕐️ 13:00–15:00 CEST — a perfect fit for Python 🐍 users ready for hands‑on work. @ai4life.bsky.social
#OMEZarr #AIinScience #ImageAnalysis #Workshop
forms.gle/5hQh1BoACPaF...
#OMEZarr #AIinScience #ImageAnalysis #Workshop
forms.gle/5hQh1BoACPaF...
Member Eric Perlman takes the stage at @embl.org to announce our launch as an international worker co-op for #OSS scientific imaging software. First task supported by @biohub.org is accelerating #OMEZarr towards a 1.0 alpha early 2027. Stay tuned! image.coop
#GIDE2026 @gideproject.bsky.social
#GIDE2026 @gideproject.bsky.social
May 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Member Eric Perlman takes the stage at @embl.org to announce our launch as an international worker co-op for #OSS scientific imaging software. First task supported by @biohub.org is accelerating #OMEZarr towards a 1.0 alpha early 2027. Stay tuned! image.coop
#GIDE2026 @gideproject.bsky.social
#GIDE2026 @gideproject.bsky.social
Curious about new generation image file formats (NGFF)? Join the first NGFF Café! Josh Moore, @gerbi.bsky.social, presents "#OMEZarr Roadmap: Recent Community Outcomes, v0.6 and Future Directions." All are welcome!
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
June 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Curious about new generation image file formats (NGFF)? Join the first NGFF Café! Josh Moore, @gerbi.bsky.social, presents "#OMEZarr Roadmap: Recent Community Outcomes, v0.6 and Future Directions." All are welcome!
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
🗓️ July 1 @ 11 am CEST
📍 Online
Register⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/ngff-...
Looking forward to learning more about this and how it can be used for #volumeEM at the #CCPvolumeEM #NGFF hackathon at @ebi.embl.org this week!
#BioImageAnalysis @cosec-ukri.bsky.social #OMEZarr
#BioImageAnalysis @cosec-ukri.bsky.social #OMEZarr
We’re excited to share our latest preprint on Fractal: our approach towards FAIR bioimage analysis at scale with OME-Zarr-native workflows.
Fractal defines interoperable tasks on OME-Zarr and provides a platform for TB-scale image analysis.
(1 / 10🧵)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fractal defines interoperable tasks on OME-Zarr and provides a platform for TB-scale image analysis.
(1 / 10🧵)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
March 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Looking forward to learning more about this and how it can be used for #volumeEM at the #CCPvolumeEM #NGFF hackathon at @ebi.embl.org this week!
#BioImageAnalysis @cosec-ukri.bsky.social #OMEZarr
#BioImageAnalysis @cosec-ukri.bsky.social #OMEZarr
syGlass v2.6.0 is out for #3DThursday! ❄️
🖥️ Sony Spatial Reality Display support
☁️ Direct OME-Zarr streaming from disk, S3, or HTTPS
🖌️ VR surface partition brush
⌨️ In-VR keyboard & numpad
🎮 Saved tool loadouts
www.syglass.io/blog/syglass...
#syGlass #Bioimaging #VR #3DData #OMEZarr #Sony
🖥️ Sony Spatial Reality Display support
☁️ Direct OME-Zarr streaming from disk, S3, or HTTPS
🖌️ VR surface partition brush
⌨️ In-VR keyboard & numpad
🎮 Saved tool loadouts
www.syglass.io/blog/syglass...
#syGlass #Bioimaging #VR #3DData #OMEZarr #Sony
February 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
syGlass v2.6.0 is out for #3DThursday! ❄️
🖥️ Sony Spatial Reality Display support
☁️ Direct OME-Zarr streaming from disk, S3, or HTTPS
🖌️ VR surface partition brush
⌨️ In-VR keyboard & numpad
🎮 Saved tool loadouts
www.syglass.io/blog/syglass...
#syGlass #Bioimaging #VR #3DData #OMEZarr #Sony
🖥️ Sony Spatial Reality Display support
☁️ Direct OME-Zarr streaming from disk, S3, or HTTPS
🖌️ VR surface partition brush
⌨️ In-VR keyboard & numpad
🎮 Saved tool loadouts
www.syglass.io/blog/syglass...
#syGlass #Bioimaging #VR #3DData #OMEZarr #Sony