Orbicule today released Macnification, its brand new workflow solution for digital electron microscopy. Macnification enables scientists to import, organize, find, annotate, analyze, adjust, compare, visualize and publish microscopic images.

All major image file formats can be imported into Macnification, in addition to many proprietary formats including e.g. Gatan Digital Micrograph (dm3), JEOL SEM images (tiff + txt), MetaMorph Stack (stk), Open Microscopy Environment (ome.tiff) and Zeiss (lsm). Support for more formats is forthcoming. Metadata is imported as well, and can be viewed and edited in a fully customizable metadata view.

The full-screen image view allows for measurements of length, area, perimeter, circularity and color contents. Results can be exported to spreadsheet applications with a single click. The entire Macnification workflow is non-destructive: the original image is never touched when applying adjustments or when adding a scale bar or ROIs.

The application has been built from the ground up for Mac OS X Leopard, Apple's newest operating system. For example, Macnification takes advantage of Core Animation to offer scientists a stunning way to visualize image stacks and to make virtual cuts through them. It also leverages Core Image to offer the fastest Extended Depth of Focus (EFI) algorithm on any platform. In addition, Macnification integrates tightly with Quick Look, Spotlight, Time Machine, Core Data, ImageKit, QuickTime, and many other Mac OS X technologies. It takes full advantage of multiple processor cores.