Using Bio-Formats in R

OME does not currently provide an R implementation for Bio-Formats. However, there are options provided by the community:

Bioconductor RBioFormats

The RBioFormats project from Bioconductor provides an R package which interfaces the OME Bio-Formats Java library to allow reading of proprietary microscopy image data and metadata.:

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("BiocManager")

# The following initializes usage of Bioc devel
BiocManager::install(version='devel')

BiocManager::install("RBioFormats")


# To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system
browseVignettes("RBioFormats")

For further details and examples of how to use the package, please see the API documentation