When you select Bio-Formats under the Plugin menu, you will see the
following features:
The Bio-Formats Importer is a plugin for loading
images into ImageJ or
Fiji. It can read over 140 proprietary life sciences formats and
standardizes their acquisition metadata into the common
OME data model. It will also extract and set basic
metadata values such as spatial
calibration
if they are available in the file.
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).
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 we recommend downloading your data to disk and using the
regular Bio-Formats Importer whenever possible.
The Bio-Formats Windowless Importer is a version of the Bio-Formats
Importer plugin that runs with the last used settings to avoid any
additional dialogs beyond the file chooser. If you always use the same
import settings, you may wish to use the windowless importer to save
time (Learn more here).
The Bio-Formats Macro Extensions plugin prints out the set of
commands that can be used to create macro extensions. The commands and
the instructions for using them are printed to the ImageJ log window.
The Stack Slicer plugin is a helper plugin used by the Bio-Formats
Importer. It can also be used to split a stack across channels, focal
planes or time points.
The Bio-Formats Plugins Configuration dialog is a useful way to configure
the behavior of each file format. The Formats tab lists supported file
formats and toggles each format on or off, which is useful if your file
is detected as the wrong format. It also toggles whether each format
bypasses the importer options dialog through the “Windowless” checkbox.
You can also configure any specific option for each format. The Libraries
tab provides a list of available helper libraries used by Bio-Formats.
The Bio-Formats Plugins Shortcut Window opens a small window with a
quick-launch button for each plugin. Dragging and dropping files
onto the shortcut window opens them quickly using the Bio-Formats
Importer plugin.
The Update Bio-Formats Plugins command will check for updates to the
plugins. We recommend you update to the newest Trunk build as soon as you
think you may have discovered a bug.