eeDAP: Evaluation Environment for Digital and Analog Pathology, BIO Formats
BIO Formats
Bio-Formats is currently being used in eeDAP. It is a stand-alone Java library for reading and writing life sciences image file formats. It is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several formats. It was developed by the Open Microscopy Environment consortium, including development teams at LOCI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Dundee and Glencoe Software. Licensing and citing information is on the OME licensing page.
The primary goal of Bio Formats is to facilitate the exchange of microscopy data between different software packages and organizations. It achieves this by converting proprietary microscopy data into an open standard called the OME data model, particularly into the OME-TIFF file format.
