CellProfiler¶
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.
Installation¶
The CellProfiler distribution comes with Bio-Formats included, so no further installation is necessary.
Upgrading¶
It should be possible to use a newer version of Bio-Formats by replacing the bundled loci_tools.jar with a newer version.
For example, on Mac OS X, Ctrl+click the CellProfiler icon, choose Show Package Contents, and replace the following files:
Contents/Resources/bioformats/loci_tools.jarContents/Resources/lib/python2.5/bioformats/loci_tools.jar
See also
- CellProfiler
Website of the CellProfiler software
- Using Bio-Formats in Python
Section of the developer documentation describing the Python wrapper for Bio-Formats used by CellProfiler
