Python-bioformats is a Python wrapper for Bio-Formats, a standalone Java library for reading and writing life sciences image file formats. Bio-Formats is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several formats. Python-bioformats uses the python-javabridge to start a Java virtual machine from Python and interact with it. Python-bioformats was developed for and is used by the cell image analysis software CellProfiler (cellprofiler.org).

PyPI record: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bioformats

Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/python-bioformats/

GitHub repository: https://github.com/CellProfiler/python-bioformats

Report bugs here: https://github.com/CellProfiler/python-bioformats/issues

python-bioformats is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Many files are licensed under the more permissive BSD license. See the accompanying files COPYING and LICENSE for details.

Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Broad Institute. All rights reserved.