Bio-Rad PIC

Extensions: .pic, .raw, .xml

Developer: Bio-Rad

Owner: Carl Zeiss, Inc.

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions:

Reader: BioRadReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

Freely Available Software:

• Bio-Rad PIC reader plugin for ImageJ

We currently have:

• a PIC specification document (v4.5, in PDF)
• an older PIC specification document (v4.2, from 1996 December 16, in DOC)
• a large number of PIC datasets
• the ability to produce new datasets

We would like to have:

Ratings

Pixels:

Metadata:

Openness:

Presence:

Utility:

Additional Information

Please note that while we have specification documents for this format, we are not able to distribute them to third parties.

• Commercial applications that support this format include:
  • Bitplane Imaris
  • SVI Huygens