Microscope control software for core imaging facilities
Empower your microscopy platform with high-performance image acquisition
Enable users to run any imaging workflows independently, while maintaining full control over your microscopy systems
Core imaging facilities operate at the intersection of scientific demand, diverse instrumentation, and constant user turnover.
Managing multiple systems, supporting users with varying expertise, and maintaining reliable acquisition workflows quickly becomes a daily operational challenge.
Inscoper addresses these challenges by giving you more control, flexibility, and autonomy where it matters most.
Empower user autonomy
- Accelerate onboarding
- Free up time for scientific collaboration
- Reduce user support requests
Handle Evolving Systems
- Easily adapt to new technologies, user challenges, and experiments
- Gain superior scientific output
- Exceed the limits of vendor-specific software
Maximize Equipment Value
- Increase uptime and system reliability
- Retrofit high-value instruments without disruption
- Give your favorite legacy stands a “second life”
Addressing the Top 3 Core Facility Challenges
from routine imaging to synchronized multi-device acquisition, Inscoper brings consistency, control, and performance to your facility’s image acquisition workflows.
1. User training & support bottlenecks
Your expertise lies in experimental design and advanced optics, but your daily schedule is often consumed by onboarding new users. Each with varying levels of microscopy experience leading to endless basic troubleshooting tickets. It’s time to shift your focus back to the science.
Enable independent operation
Inscoper Imaging Software 9.3: Acquisition interface for automated and high-throughput imaging
Faster user onboarding
Accelerate training with a highly intuitive, single-window acquisition interface. With just three logical tabs and drag-and-drop workflow design, even beginners can run routine imaging within minutes.
Protocol Management
Users can create, save, and reuse imaging protocols with ease.
From simple acquisitions to complex multi-dimensional experiments, workflows are executed reliably and can be quickly reloaded by any user.
Role-based access-control
Protect your instruments with dedicated ‘User’ and ‘Expert’ modes.
Guide beginners with locked parameters while giving advanced users greater control to execute advanced experiments.
Reclaim your time
By enabling greater user autonomy, platform engineers can shift their focus from routine support to more impactful scientific tasks.
2. Vendor Lock-In & Integration Limits
You manage a diverse mix of equipment, which often forces a difficult choice: use proprietary software that restricts you to a single vendor’s ecosystem, or rely on open-source platforms that still require significant in-house time and expertise to configure, connect, and maintain. You shouldn’t have to compromise on your facility’s infrastructure.
Move beyond compatibility limits
TIRF/FRAP and feedback microscopy system at the Pertz Lab, Bern, Switzerland, enabling adaptive and automated experiments.
Comprehensive device control
Easily pilot your entire setup—from XY motorized stages and precision Z-focus (piezo) to filter wheels, light sources, and environmental controls.
Bridge old and new
Integrate modern devices such as sCMOS cameras while preserving your legacy assets without being restricted by proprietary communication protocols.
Precise multi-brand synchronization
Perfectly synchronize multiple devices. Our Device Controller uses TTL and analog triggering to eliminate OS latency, enabling up to 3x higher frame rates and low-microsecond precision.
3. IT dependencies & maintenance overhead
Routine IT maintenance shouldn’t disrupt your facility’s operations. Yet OS updates can break device drivers, and even small hardware changes often require time-consuming reconfiguration or vendor intervention. There is a smarter way to manage your imaging systems.
Stay in control of your systems
The new Configurator interface: Visually map hardware components and adjust the control layout.
OS-independent stability
Thanks to the dedicated Device Controller, your acquisition stability is decoupled from unpredictable Windows updates. In case of hardware failure, you can restore your configuration almost instantly.
Exhaustive metadata traceability
Every acquisition is linked to detailed metadata and performance logs.This ensures data integrity and reproducibility across experiments.
Flexible system configuration
Configure and update your systems independently: Add any of our 500+ supported devices, customize the UI to your workflows. When needed our team can develop dedicated drivers.
Advanced diagnostics
Monitor system performance over time and prevent issues quickly with detailed logs, reducing troubleshooting time and unexpected downtime.
Unlock Advanced Capabilities
Equip your facility for demanding, high-end science.
Solving your IT and hardware bottlenecks is just the beginning!
With your high-value instrumentation perfectly synchronized, INSCOPER transforms everyday setups into advanced imaging engines, empowering your researchers to push the boundaries of their experiments.
Provide your users with a state-of-the-art software environment that supports:
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Advanced Multi-Dimensional Workflows: Streamline multi-channel, time-lapse, and large-scale XYZ mosaics using an intuitive drag-and-drop sequences builder.
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High-Speed Modalities: Guarantee perfect hardware synchronization for demanding techniques like spinning-disk confocal, TIRF, FRAP, dynamic super-resolution, FRET, and microfluidics.
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AI-Ready Smart Microscopy: Integrate custom Python scripting so real-time image analysis can dynamically guide your acquisitions and enable intelligent, adaptive imaging and closed-loop feedback control for advanced microscopy applications. Take customization even further with the Acquisition Designer to build rule-based workflows, and easily set custom variables and conditional actions.
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Comprehensive Imaging Toolkit: Enable high-precision ratiometric imaging, seamless stitching, or 3D visualization directly at the workstation. Benefit from robust software autofocus and effortless third-party software integration, such as Jetraw lossless image compression software, to continuously expand your ecosystem.
Maximize Your Imaging Performance: Let's explore options for your core facility
Whether you are investing in a brand-new imaging system, retrofitting a trusted legacy microscope to prevent obsolescence, or trying to execute a complex experiment your current software says is “impossible”: INSCOPER adapts to your exact needs. Let’s discuss your setup and explore how we can synchronize your instruments and optimize your science.