Columbus

Setting the standard for image data management

Columbus™ is a convenient and easy-to-use solution for high volume data management, storage, retrieval, visualization and protection of images and analyzed results.  Designed as a complementary product for the Opera™ confocal microplate imaging reader, Columbus can import, export and manage image formats from a wide variety of sources, providing a central repository for all your microscope imaging data.

As well as providing users with faster interfacing between their images and data management, the latest edition of the Columbus software is fully web-enabled - making it usable without software installation. A single installation of Columbus can serve an entire laboratory, department or even organization, for a cost effective solution to image data management and analysis that is highly scalable.

Columbus supports a wide range of formats, creating a central repository for all your image data

Columbus data management is available in two versions:

• Columbus Gallery provides a comprehensive data archive, management and visualization solution.
• Columbus Conductor includes all the functionality of Columbus Gallery plus the ability to analyze or re-analyze High Content Screening (HCS) data from image readers using the Acapella™ image analysis software. By running Acapella on the server computer alongside Columbus, you can achieve greater processing power to run batch processes and obtain results much more quickly.

Columbus is ideally placed to become the industry standard for image data management.  The system utilizes the OMERO server, developed by the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) and is based on an open protocol. As a result it is able to operate with a wide variety of instruments and software so that you can place the system at the center of your volume storage requirements.

Columbus can interface with many third party software solutions, providing researchers with unprecedented capabilities for the detection and analysis of cells via High Content Screening (HCS) technologies.

Open Microscopy Environment

Columbus utilizes the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) which is a multi-site collaborative project among academic laboratories and a number of commercial entities that produces open tools to support data management for biological light microscopy.

OMERO software is released by the OME Consortium and is ©2008 University of Dundee and Glencoe Software, Inc.