Bio-Formats Downloads
The Java library for reading and writing biological image data.
Developed by the Open Microscopy Environment, Bio-Formats is a standalone Java library for reading and writing popular microscopy file formats and is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several formats.
- loci_tools.jar – Complete Bio-Formats bundle with supporting libraries
- bio-formats.jar – Bio-Formats standalone library
See the Bio-Formats Download page for the most up-to-date version of Bio-Formats including daily and trunk builds and source code repository information.

