All research labs have a ready supply of optical components to use to build a new instrument.   These can be combined in almost limitless ways to create new microscopy applications.  However, most labs have to develop a new microscopy solution for each application, a time consuming process, or they must adapt an existing solution.  Both situations tend to produce difficult to use software that is useful for only a limited range of applications

            Open Microscopy Toolkit is made to bridge these problems.  It is a common framework of software components that can be easily combined into a whole custom solution.  The toolkit can run cameras, stages, filters, and a large number of other common equipment.  New equipment can be easily added through plugins and the common framework.

            This toolkit is based on the Micromanager base and supports all their equipment.  It is compadible with Labview, Matlab, Python, Scilab, R and any language that supports DCOM.  It is based on the .Net framework allowing its use with a huge number of .Net languages