Easily Built And Share Custom R Menu Scripts With Bio7

09.04.2019 Bio7 can be extended with R packages, Eclipse plugins and ImageJ plugins. Another very easy option to extend the Bio7 Graphical User Interface with R actions are dynamic menus which can be used, e.g., for personalized workflows or repeating tasks. The provision of new menus and nested menus is simple and can be arranged … Read more

Bio7 3.0 Released

27.03.2019 A new release of Bio7 is available which is built upon Eclipse 4.11 and the latest Java OpenJDK. This new version comes bundled with OpenJDK 12, supports the dynamic compilation of Java 11 and fixes several annoying bugs on MacOSX (e.g., shutdown crashes). The R interface has been improved and the R-Shell now updates … Read more

Eclipse ImageJ Plugin Update Released

12.02.2019 I released a new version of the ImageJ plugin which comes bundled with a feature complete ImageJ macro editor and an embedded Eclipse ImageJ interface. Screenshot (Windows, Eclipse Darkest Dark Theme) Screenshot Code Completion (Windows, Eclipse Darkest Dark Theme) Release notes: Updated ImageJ version 1.52m (1.52m12) Improved the ImageJ canvas (Plot canvas and Image … Read more

The Road to OpenJDK 11

22.11.2018 it was a long road to the Java 11module system because a lot of bugs and settings had to be fixed for the next release of Bio7 which will be bundled with the OpenJDK as the default Java Runtime. With Java 11 finally scaling of JavavFX, Swing and AWT components inside of Bio7 is … Read more

Transfer data from R to Python with PyRserve and Bio7

29.08.2018 Recently I discovered the package PyRserve for Python which connects Python with R using Rserve. This is extremly useful because Bio7 already integrates Rserve and has special GUI interfaces available to transfer, e.g.,  data from spreadsheets, ImageJ image and selection data (also georeferenced),  Java simulation data, etc. With this new Rserve connection this data … Read more