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Use the Insight client, command line interface or transfer files directly to OMERO.</p> <a href="/omero/features/import/" class="button small">Learn more</a> </div> </div> <div class="column"> <a href="/omero/features/organize/"> <i class="icon-fa-green fa fa-sitemap fa-2x"></i> </a> <div class="omero-key-feature-container"> <h4>organize</h4> <p>Annotate your data with Tags, Comments, Files and more. Browse or Search your images and share with collaborators.</p> <a href="/omero/features/organize/" class="button small">Learn more</a> </div> </div> <div class="column"> <a href="/omero/features/view/"> <i class="icon-fa-blue fa fa-eye fa-2x"></i> </a> <div class="omero-key-feature-container"> <h4>view</h4> <p>Use OMERO clients to work with image data over the internet from anywhere. Browse thumbnails, image previews and view in full multi-dimensional viewer. High Content Screening data is also supported.</p> <a href="/omero/features/view/" class="button small">Learn more</a> </div> </div> <div class="column"> <a href="/omero/features/analyze/"> <i class="icon-fa-green fa fa-line-chart fa-2x"></i> </a> <div class="omero-key-feature-container"> <h4>analyze</h4> <p>Use ImageJ, MATLAB, R, scripts and other tools to run analysis on data in OMERO and save results on the server.</p> <a href="/omero/features/analyze/" class="button small">Learn more</a> </div> </div> <div class="column"> <a href="/omero/features/publish/"> <i class="icon-fa-red fa fa-rocket fa-2x"></i> </a> <div class="omero-key-feature-container"> <h4>publish</h4> <p>Publish your raw data straight from the server using URLs to link directly to the web-based image viewer in a manuscript or embed images into your website.</p> <a href="/omero/features/publish/" class="button small">Learn more</a> </div> </div> <div class="column"> <a href="/omero/features/export/"> <i 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