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IMOD is a set of image processing, modeling and display programs used for tomographic reconstruction and for 3D reconstruction of EM serial sections and optical sections. The package contains tools for assembling and aligning data within multiple types and sizes of image stacks, viewing 3-D data from any orientation, and modeling and display of the image files. IMOD was developed primarily by David Mastronarde, Rick Gaudette, Sue Held, Jim Kremer, and Quanren Xiong at the Boulder Laboratory for 3-D Electron Microscopy of Cells.

The development of IMOD has been supported by grants from the National Center for Research Resources, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. IMOD and virtually all programs contained within the IMOD package are Copyright (c) 1994-2009 by the Boulder Laboratory for 3-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Cells and the Regents of the University of Colorado. Other contributors are acknowledged in our Copyright and Credits statement.


IMOD 3.13.5 Is Now Available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X

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Release Notes

IMOD 3.13 contains a variety of functional enhancements plus the usual assortment of bug fixes. The highlights of this version include:

IMOD 3.13.5 has fixes for a number of bugs, listed here. Here is the complete list of changes in IMOD 3.13.2

Changes in previous versions:


Hardware and Operating System Requirements

OpenGL: IMOD requires OpenGL libraries.

Java for eTomo: The eTomo program for building tomograms requires a Java run-time environment. We provide links to Java packages for Linux, Windows, and SGIs on the Download page. Java is part of the standard installation of Mac OS X and comes in some Windows installations too. The Java version that comes in Fedora Core does not work for eTomo.

Cygwin for Windows: For full functionality, the Windows version requires installation of a Unix toolkit called Cygwin. We provide a package for installing this on the Download page.

The recommended configuration for running the IMOD software on a Linux PC is:

Notes and caveats on Linux systems:

Performance notes:


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