Data sharing

Bio-Formats is a standalone Java library for reading and writing life sciences image file formats. It is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several formats. The primary goal of Bio-Formats is to facilitate the exchange of microscopy data between different software packages and organizations. It achieves this by converting proprietary microscopy data into an open standard called the OME Data Model, particularly into the OME-TIFF file format. ### Command Line Tools Bioformats could also be used as stand alone application from command line. See [Bioformats command line tools introduction.](http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5/users/comlineto…)

It is used to upload a file (not just images) meant for the ImageJ developers. You might need to do this e.g. when the file is too large for email attachments, or when you want to accompany a bug report with a large image. To prevent abuse of this facility, access to the uploaded images is restricted to trusted admins.

This plugin provides import and export Icy sequences into Matlab native .mat files from the protocol framework.