Note
This documentation is for the new Bio-Formats 5.1 version. See the latest Bio-Formats 5.0.x version or the previous versions page to find documentation for the version you are using.
CellProfiler—developed by the Broad Institute Imaging Platform—is free open-source software designed to enable biologists without training in computer vision or programming to quantitatively measure phenotypes from thousands of images automatically. CellProfiler uses Bio-Formats to read images from disk, as well as write movies.
The CellProfiler distribution comes with Bio-Formats included, so no further installation is necessary.
It should be possible to use a newer version of Bio-Formats by replacing the bundled loci_tools.jar with a newer version.
See also