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Bio-Formats | |
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QuickTime | |
TIFF | |
DICOM | |
Zeiss LSM | |
Olympus VSI | |
Opera Flex | |
All I/O plugins |
OME Bio-Formats plugins (ImageJ) | |
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Author | Open Microscopy Environment: - UW-Madison LOCI - Glencoe Software - University of Dundee |
Maintainer | OME development team |
File | See Bio-Formats Downloads page |
Source | on GitHub |
Latest version | See Bio-Formats Downloads page |
Development status | active |
Category | Category:Import-Export |
- 3Documentation
Purpose
Import data from many life sciences file formats, and export to several open formats.
History
See LOCI's Bio-Formats site for a historical narrative of the project.
Documentation
What follows is a brief overview of the available plugins. You will find them all under the 'Bio-Formats' submenu of Plugins. See the Bio-Formats web site for additional information about Bio-Formats in general.
See especially the Using Bio-Formats page for detailed instructions.
Bio-Formats Importer
The Bio-Formats Importer is a plugin for reading data into Fiji. It can open many dozens of proprietary life sciences formats, and standardize their acquisition metadata into a common OME data model. It will also extract and set basic metadata values such as spatial calibration if they are available in the file.
Often, you will not need to worry about this plugin to import your data, because Bio-Formats is largely integrated with the File/Open command of Fiji. However, for certain file formats, you may wish to explicitly activate the Bio-Formats Importer to override the default behavior of Fiji. For example, by default Fiji uses some built-in logic to open TIFF files, but this logic may fail with certain TIFFs. The Bio-Formats Importer plugin may be able to import such TIFFs successfully.
Bio-Formats Exporter
The Bio-Formats Exporter is a plugin for exporting data to disk.
It can save to the open OME-TIFF file format, as well as several movie formats (e.g., QuickTime, AVI) and graphics formats (e.g., PNG, JPEG).
- Animated PNG (*.png)
- Audio Video Interleave (*.avi)
- CellH5 File Format (*.ch5)
- Encausupated PostScript (*.eps, *.epsi)
- Image Cytometry Standard (*.ids, *.ics)
- Java source code (*.java)
- JPEG (*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.jpe)
- JPEG-2000 (*.jp2)
- OME-TIFF (*.ome.tif, *.ome.tiff, *.ome.tf2, *.ome.tf8, *.ome.btf)
- OME-XML (*.ome, *.ome.xml)
- QuickTime (*.mov)
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) (*.tif, *.tiff, *.tf2, *.tf8, *.btf)
- Vaa3d (*.v3draw)
- Woolz (*.wlz)
Note: For OME-TIFF and TIFF formats, the file extensions *.tif and *.tiff are associated with the standard 32-bit TIFF, which has a 4GB size limit. On the other hand, the file extensions *.tf2, *.tf8, and *.btf are automatically associated with the 64-bit BigTIFF format, which can store much bigger data.
Bio-Formats Remote Importer
The Bio-Formats Remote Importer is a plugin for importing data from a remote URL.
It is likely to be less robust than working with files on disk, so when possible we recommend downloading your data to disk and using the regular Bio-Formats Importer instead.
Bio-Formats Windowless Importer
The Bio-Formats Windowless Importer is a version of the Bio-Formats Importer plugin that runs with the last used settings to avoid popping up any additional dialogs beyond the file chooser. If you find that you always use the same import settings, you may wish to use the windowless importer to save time.
Bio-Formats Macro Extensions
The Bio-Formats plugins come with a set of macro extensions to enable additional functionality from macros. The Bio-Formats Macro Extensions plugin prints out the available commands to the ImageJ log window, along with instructions for using them.
Stack Slicer
The Stack Slicer plugin is a helper plugin used by the Bio-Formats Importer. It can also be used standalone to split a stack across channels, focal planes or time points.
Bio-Formats Plugins Configuration
The Bio-Formats Plugins Configuration dialog is a useful way to configure the behavior of each file format. You can see a list of supported file formats on the Formats tab, toggle each format on or off (which is useful, for example, if your file is being detected as the wrong format), and toggle whether each format bypasses the importer options dialog using the 'Windowless' checkbox. You can also configure any specific options for each format—for example, for QuickTime, you can toggle between Apple's QTJava library or Bio-Formats's built-in support.
In addition, you can see a list of available helper libraries used by Bio-Formats on the Libraries tab.
Bio-Formats Plugins Shortcut Window
The Bio-Formats Plugins Shortcut Window is a small window with a quick-launch button for each plugin. You can also drag and drop files onto the shortcut window to open them quickly using the Bio-Formats Importer plugin.
Update Bio-Formats Plugins
The Update Bio-Formats Plugins command will check online for updates to the Bio-Formats Plugins. In the case of Fiji, we recommend that you do not use this method of update, but instead use the Fiji Updater.
Calling Bio-Formats from the command line
You can invoke Bio-Formats from the command line using the ImageJ Launcher:
- Use the Macro Recorder to record the line of macro code that runs Bio-Formats that way you want.
- Click 'Create' to pop up the Script Editor, edit as desired, then save the macro as a
.ijm
macro file. - Run the macro from the command line; e.g.:
Leave off the -batch
flag if you want ImageJ to remain open afterward.
Note that you cannot use the --headless option because Bio-Formats does not work in headless mode, even when running as a macro. (You will see VerifyError
on the console if you try.)
Here is an example macro created in such a fashion:
Scripting
Bio-Formats has a high-level scripting interface, accessible by Java and all scripting languages supported by Fiji (but not the ImageJ macro language). Java example:
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If needed, import options can be set:
Daily builds
Fiji ships release versions of Bio-Formats. However, given the long time frame between releases, you can update to the latest code by toggling the Bio-Formats update site, which includes the latest bug-fixes.
When reporting a bug, the developers may ask you to test with the Bio-Formats update site enabled.
To enable the Bio-Formats update site:
- Launch the updater: Update from the Help menu.
- Click the Manage update sites button.
- Tick the Bio-Formats box:
- Click the Close button. The updater should want to update some files now:
- Click the Apply changes button.
- Restart Fiji when prompted.
- To verify the upgrade, choose Bio-Formats Plugins... from About Plugins beneath the Help menu:
Source code
The Bio-Formats source code is on GitHub.
Reporting bugs
To report a bug in Bio-Formats, please see reporting a bug in Bio-Formats.
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Publication
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- Linkert, M.; Rueden, C. T. & Allan, C. et al. (2010), 'Metadata matters: access to image data in the real world', The Journal of cell biology189(5): 777-782, PMID 20513764, <http://jcb.rupress.org/content/189/5/777.short> (on Google Scholar).