Open SER File
SER files have various uses, different from each other, namely:
Astronomical Capture
In this application, the SER files store a series of frame captures, data about image frames and metadata, such as timestamps, exposure time, instrument and other characteristics of the Lucam video format. Lucam is a software that is included in Lumenera products for image and video processing in different areas, although in the case of SER files, they refer to astronomical captures, such as planets, the sun and the moon.
The SER files were created exclusively for the Lumenera and DMK cameras. However, as the SER format is popular, these files can be opened by a variety of programs, such as SER Player, FireCapture, ImagesPlus, RegiStax, SER-Reader, and PIPP.
There are several versions of the SER format ranging from monochrome images to version 3 which provides support for color images.
GeneMapper
In this section, the SER files are projects generated by GeneMapper, a genotyping program.
SER files store the results of a capillary sequencer analyzed with GeneMapper and provide DNA size.
The GeneMapper program is basically an electrophoresis-based genotyping and mapping program from Applied Biosystems.
To open and operate a SER file, you must make sure of the file type, and then have one of the following programs installed on your system: