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Bio-Formats Downloads

The Java library for reading microscopy files.

Developed by the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation group (LOCI), 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.

See the Bio-Formats Download page for the most up-to-date version of Bio-Formats including daily and trunk builds.

The source code is also available from the Subversion repository:

$ svn co http://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/svn/java/trunk/components/bio-formats bio-formats

If you wish to build your own copy you need additional supporting code:

$ svn co http://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/svn/java/trunk my-bio-formats/trunk
$ cd my-bio-formats/trunk
$ ant tools
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