Bio-Formats
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OME at LOCI – Software – Bio-Formats – Downloads

The following table lists packages available for download. To access bug fixes between stable releases, you can download the daily build (updated every night) or the trunk build (updated within minutes of every SVN commit) for the latest bugfixes, but please be aware that these builds are not always thoroughly tested and should be considered beta quality.

Version Release date Filename Size in bytes
LOCI Tools complete bundle (for end users)  
Trunk build Continuous loci_tools.jar  
Daily build Today loci_tools.jar  
Previous daily build Yesterday loci_tools.jar  
4.0.1 (stable release) 2009 June 1 loci_tools.jar 7,339,882
OME Tools complete bundle (for end users)  
Daily build Today ome_tools.jar  
Previous daily build Yesterday ome_tools.jar  
Bio-Formats command line tools  
Stable release 2009 Jan 6 bftools.zip 13,262
Bio-Formats library standalone (for software developers) 
Trunk build Continuous bio-formats.jar  
Daily build Today bio-formats.jar  
Previous daily build Yesterday bio-formats.jar  
4.0.1 (stable release) 2009 June 1 bio-formats.jar 1,119,701
LOCI Common library (for software developers) 
Trunk build Continuous loci-common.jar  
Daily build Today loci-common.jar  
Previous daily build Yesterday loci-common.jar  
OME-XML Java library (for software developers)  
Trunk build Continuous ome-xml.jar  
Daily build Today ome-xml.jar  
Previous daily build Yesterday ome-xml.jar  
Stable release 2008 Sep 8 ome-xml.jar 231,492

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Source code

Bio-Formats is an open source project—the source code is freely accessible via our SVN repository. See these instructions for details on checking out the code. For additional developer resources, see Using Bio-Formats as a Java library.



Last update: Monday, June 1, 2009