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SUBMITTER: Hiner MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5142403 | biostudies-other | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hiner Mark C MC Rueden Curtis T CT Eliceiri Kevin W KW
BMC bioinformatics 20161207 1
<h4>Background</h4>No gold standard exists in the world of scientific image acquisition; a proliferation of instruments each with its own proprietary data format has made out-of-the-box sharing of that data nearly impossible. In the field of light microscopy, the Bio-Formats library was designed to translate such proprietary data formats to a common, open-source schema, enabling sharing and reproduction of scientific results. While Bio-Formats has proved successful for microscopy images, the gre ...[more]