BioImageXD - free open source software for analysis and visualization of multidimensional biomedical imagesAn updated beta version available (2008-03-28)A newly updated beta version of BioImageXD is now available at the downloads section of the website. The new version significantly improves the importing and file format capabilities of BioImageXD. See the announcement for more details. Please note: The new release is still a beta release, meaning that despite our best efforts to make the release as error free as possible, you might run into a bug occasionally. Therefore, we have made it very easy to report problems to us. Using the "Report bug" feature from Help- menu, you can let us know about your problems, so that we can further improve BioImageXD. You should also check the website periodically to see if there are new releases out, that might fix the issues you have. Especially note, that the Animator does not yet work properly on the Mac version of the software. This is being fixed and is working in development versions. BioImageXD BioImageXD - free open source software for analysis, processing and 3D rendering of multi dimensional microscopy images. BioImageXD is a collaborative open source free software project, designed and developed by microscopists, cell biologists and programmers from the Universities of Jyväskylä and Turku in Finland, Max Planck Institute CBG, Dresden, Germany and collaborators worldwide. Implementation BioImageXD is written in Python and C++, using wxPython for the GUI, and leverages the power of the Visualisation Toolkit (VTK) for multi dimensional image processing and 3D volume rendering. BioimageXD works on Linux (or theoretically any UNIX with wxPython and VTK), Mac OS X 10.4, and MS Windows XP/2000. First windows beta version of the software was released on the 9th Feb 2006. See the download section for releases of the software. What kinds of computer does BioImageXD work on? BioImageXD is platform independent! BioImageXD has many functions that require a modern fast main processor, eg. colocalisation analysis on large datasets. We are trying to optimise the compilation of c++ code into execuatble binaries for SSE and alivec (modern intel, amd, and ppc G4 and G5 processors) New verisons are multi threaded, so multiple processors and dual/quad core processors are taken advantage of. Gigabyes of RAM will also help speed things up, and for 3D rendering of image data a newer graphics card with 256MB or more memory is a very good thing. Theoretically BioImageXD will run on nearly any platform/hardware with an OpenGL graphics card, but for comfortable use with large images you really need gigabytes of RAM, a modern processor running at 1.5 or more GHz, and 256 or more MB of memory on your graphics card. It probably wont work on older versions of windows like 3.1, 95 and 98. Windows 2000, XP and XP64 should work (Vista as yet untested). Apple G3 machines arent really supported as they are too slow and have insufficient graphic cards. OSX 10.4 Tiger (10.5 might work) and G4, G5 or intel core processors are required for Apple Macs. Any modern Linux with hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics (DRI) will do (We have used Fedora Core). If you can get VTK, python2.4, OpenGL graphics, wxPython, gcc or other compilers working on your exotic UNIX workstation or server, then BioImageXD might work on that too. We are planning to run BioImageXD in parallel on super computers and clusters in the future.
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