.. index:: Olympus FluoView FV1000 .. index:: .oib, .oif Olympus FluoView FV1000 =============================================================================== Extensions: .oib, .oif Owner: `Olympus `_ **Support** BSD-licensed: |no| Export: |no| Officially Supported Versions: 1.0, 2.0 Reader: FV1000Reader (:bfreader:`Source Code `, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields `) Freely Available Software: - `FV-Viewer from Olympus `_ We currently have: * an OIF specification document (v2.0.0.0, from 2008, in PDF) * an FV1000 specification document (v1.0.0.0, from 2004 June 22, in PDF) * older FV1000 specification documents (draft, in DOC and XLS) * many FV1000 datasets We would like to have: * more OIB datasets (especially 2+ GB files) * more FV1000 version 2 datasets **Ratings** Pixels: |Very good| Metadata: |Very good| Openness: |Good| Presence: |Good| Utility: |Very good| **Additional Information** **Please note that while we have specification documents for this format, we are not able to distribute them to third parties.** Bio-Formats uses a modified version of the `Apache POI `_ library to read OIB files. OIF stands for "Original Imaging Format". OIB stands for "Olympus Image Binary". OIF is a multi-file format that includes an .oif file and a directory of .tif, .roi, .pty, .lut, and .bmp files. OIB is a single file format. Commercial applications that support this format include: * `Bitplane Imaris `_ * `SVI Huygens `_ .. seealso:: `Olympus FluoView Resource Center `_