Icy - copyright 2019 - Institut Pasteur
An open community platform for bio image analysis - http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org

Icy has been created by the Bio Image Analysis team at Institut Pasteur - https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/team/bioimage-analysis
Icy is free and open source, it has been funded both by Institut Pasteur and the FBI consortium - https://france-bioimaging.org

Source code is provided in the main application package (in the icy.jar archive file) but can also be found on the GitHub repository - https://github.com/Icy-imaging/Icy-Kernel


Note for OSX users
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First, you need to have java installed on your system. Sometime java is installed but just for web applications (JRE) in which case you need to install the JDK 8 for Mac OSX.
We strongly recommend to keep JDK 8 which is more stable than newer version of Java (9 or above) so if possible try to keep Java 8 as the default version.
Then be sure to have Icy installed in Applications folder. The first time you try to launch the application it may not work because of the default Security preferences.
You can force it by doing right click on the application icon (or Ctrl+click) and use 'Open' command, then validate the operation. You should now be able to use Icy normally :)


Contributors
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Kernel architecture and code
    Stephane Dallongeville and Fabrice de Chaumont

Website graphic design
    Marcio de Moraes Marim

Website code
    Fabrice de Chaumont

EzPlug and Protocols (as many others plugins)
    Alexandre Dufour

Scripting
    Thomas Provoost, Timothée Lecomte and Stephane Dallongeville

MicroManager for Icy
    Thomas Provoost, Irsath Nguyen and Stephane Dallongeville

Head of unit
    Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

Many thanks to beta testers and contributors
    Nicolas Chenouard
    Alexandre Dufour
    Nicolas Hervé
    Vannary Meas-Yedid
    Sorin Pop
    Thibault Lagache
    Biomedical Imaging Group - http://bigwww.epfl.ch/
    M. Geissbuehler and T. Lasser - http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-21-8-9862
        "How to display data by color schemes compatible with red-green color perception deficiencies" Opt. Express 21, 9862-9874 (2013)        

Libraries used in Icy
    Bio-Formats - http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/bio-formats
    VTK - http://www.vtk.org/
    Substance / Insubstancial - https://github.com/Insubstantial/insubstantial
    Flanagan - http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/java/
    Jama - http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama/
    JFreeChart - http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/
    JTransforms - https://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/jtransforms
    Xuggler - http://www.xuggle.com/xuggler/

Libraries/tools integrated within the Icy website
    phpBB - TinyMCE

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