Can I save/convert microscopy files between formats with your software?

Using Bio-Formats, we support conversion from any supported format into a few different "open standard" formats including OME-TIFF. As shown on the supported formats table, you can convert from any format on the list into any format with a green checkmark in the "Export" column.

There are many ways to use Bio-Formats to convert between formats, but two easy ways are the Bio-Formats command line tools and the Bio-Formats plugins for ImageJ.

We have no plans to convert into any vendor's "closed-source" proprietary microscopy formats. Philosophically, we believe that writing to proprietary file formats reinforces the proliferation of proprietary files, and further validates vendors' continued creation of incompatible formats. Instead, we are promoting OME-TIFF as the standard, and believe the community would be best served by petitioning vendors to support OME-TIFF as at least an interchange format. Further, from a practical perspective, we have limited resources, and feel they are better served adding additional readers and fixing bugs rather than creating proprietary format writers. Lastly, the Bio-Formats writer API is open. There is nothing to stop a vendor from creating a writer for their particular format. We would even be happy to include it in Bio-Formats, if they are willing to open source their code.