HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FEI (Nasdaq: FEIC) and The Scripps Institute have announced that the Leginon™ software system, an advanced solution for automated control and image acquisition from a transmission electron microscope (TEM), will now be available to the global scientific community as open source code. The Leginon software was developed by Scripps with funding from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health and has been marketed by FEI since 2003. It is most commonly used for Single Particle Analysis (SPA) applications, where three dimensional models of nanoscale particles are created.
