===== Interfacing with PMA.core from 3rd party software ===== 

PMA.core is a very flexible product. In such, it can be interfaced with from a number of other environments. That type of operations is outside the scope of this document however, and we will suffice with a short outline of the various types of interaction here.

==== Downstream Pathomation products ====

Pathomation provides [[https://www.pathomation.com/platform|a comprehensive software platform for digital pathology and virtual microscopy]]. As such, virtually all of our end-user products rely on PMA.core to serve slide content ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sepPIexKELE|learn more about whole slide images and why you need a tile server in the first place]])

A full overview of Pathomation products is available at [[https://www.pathomation.com/products|https://www.pathomation.com/products]].

==== Plugins for third-party software ====

The [[https://www.pathomation.com/platform|Pathomation software platform]] comprises of several plugins that will let you bring pixels from virtual slides into your (analytic) environment of choice.

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See [[https://www.pathomation.com/plugins|our website at https://www.pathomation.com/plugins]] for more details.

==== APIs and SDKs ====

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Still can't find what you're looking for with a plugin? We have a separate [[https://www.pathomation.com/developer|developer portal page]] where we take a look at how we allow integration with many more environments, platforms, and programming languages.