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.
- 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.
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
