Highlights of Columbus 2.7.1 release include the following (full details are available at the bottom of this message as well as in the release notes):
- Support for additional HCS readers and other imaging modalities including our Vectra Quantitative Pathology Imaging system
- Performance and security enhancements
- Search/filter enhancements
- Minor bug fixes
Details of new features and bug fixes:
-Added ability to import Celigo datasets (COL-1466)
-Added ability to import Ensight/Kaleido 1.2 datasets (COL-1467)
-Added ability to import Vectra datasets (COL-1589)
-Added ability to import MetaSystems datasets (COL-1468)
-Added ability to import Zeiss datasets (COL-1469)
-Added ability to import Biotek datasets (COL-1496)
-Added ability to filter tables showing published status of screens and plates (COL-1276)
-Improved metadata capture for Arrayscan datasets (COL-1610)
-Improved metadata support for Columbus exported and transferred datasets, flat-field correction and orientation matrix information is maintained (COL-1424, COL-1503, COL-1504)
-Improved user interface, removed inconsistencies (COl-1227, COL-1312, COL-1407)
-Improved default memory settings, increased maximum Java VM heap space to avoid out of memory errors (COL-1507)
-Improved publishing of assay definition layouts, concentration values and unit strings are now in separate columns in the csv-text file download to be easily consumed by the High-Content-Profiler (COL-1637)
-Security enhancements for user authentication and file uploads (COL-1634, COL-1594)
-Fixed problem when importing timeseries Cell Voyager 7000 datasets where images where created out of sequence (COL-19)
-Fixed problem with email validations on user profile page (COL-952)
-Fixed problem when importing ScanR datasets with similar channel names which caused an import failure (COL-1285)
-Fixed version number of SOAP web-service to match Columbus version (COL-1382)
-Fixed problem with printing an image analysis sequence including a "Filter Image" building block (COL-1425)
-Fixed problem where images from Columbus when displayed Spotfire did not have the same channel coloring (COL-1456)
-Fixed problem with automatic log file cleanup, where old PostgreSQL log files have not been removed (COL- 1491)
-Fixed problem importing analysis scripts with too long file names (COL-1578)
-Fixed problem where well result tables in the secondary analysis page and error logs could not be downloaded (COL-1629)