Imaris, developed by Oxford Instruments, provides scientists with solutions for processing, visualizing and analyzing multi-dimensional microscopic images. It reads images in many of the most commonly used proprietary formats.

In 2004 a group of Bitplane Imaris users at NIH decided to pool their resources to purchase a number of floating Imaris licenses and certain popular modules. The NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT) agreed to manage the licenses and annual maintenance, and operate the license server. In October 2017 the CIT High Performance Computing service assumed the annual maintenance fees.

There are 9 licenses for each of the following products:

NIH access only -- download the Imaris executables to your local systems, and run Imaris using the centrally installed CIT licenses. For instructions on how to access the Imaris license server, please contact the NIH HPC via email to staff@hpc.nih.gov