Jinx is a tool for segmentation of 3D data sets and is developed by the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research. It was designed specifically for 3D electron microscopic data sets produced using electron tomography, but may be used for any aligned 3D data set. It is written in Java as a Java Webstart application. Jinx contains the facility for annotating 3D microscopic data using formal ontologies. The current version of Jinx allows the choice of ontologies, including the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) ontologies, which includes an extensive ontology for subcellular anatomy of the nervous system based on our Subcellular Anatomy Ontology (SAO), as well as other ontologies from BioPortal.

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