Supported File Types
The following file formats are fully supported by Bio-Formats for reading, converting and importing into OMERO Plus. See also the table below for additional file formats supported for conversion only.
| Format | File Extension(s) |
|---|---|
| 3i SlideBook | .sld |
| Andor Bio-Imaging Division (ABD) TIFF | .tif |
| AIM | .aim |
| Alicona 3D | .al3d |
| Amersham Biosciences Gel | .gel |
| Amira Mesh | .am, .amiramesh, .grey, .hx, .labels |
| Amnis FlowSight | .cif |
| Analyze 7.5 | .img, .hdr |
| Andor SIF | .sif |
| Animated PNG | .png |
| Aperio AFI | .afi, .svs |
| Aperio SVS TIFF | .svs |
| Applied Precision CellWorX | .htd, .pnl |
| AVI (Audio Video Interleave) | .avi |
| Axon Raw Format | .arf |
| BD Pathway | .exp, .tif |
| BDV | .xml, .h5 |
| Becker & Hickl SPC FIFO | .spc |
| Becker & Hickl SPCImage | .sdt |
| Bio-Rad Gel | .1sc |
| Bio-Rad PIC | .pic, .raw, .xml |
| Bio-Rad SCN | .scn |
| BioTek Cytation | .tif, .tiff |
| Bitplane Imaris | .ims |
| Bruker MRI | |
| Burleigh | .img |
| Canon DNG | .cr2, .crw |
| CellH5 | .ch5 |
| Cellomics | .c01, .dib |
| Evident (Olympus) cellSens VSI | .vsi |
| CellVoyager | .xml, .tif |
| CV7000 | .wpi, .tif |
| DeltaVision | .dv, .r3d |
| DICOM | .dcm, .dicom |
| ECAT7 | .v |
| EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) | .eps, .epsi, .ps |
| Evotec/PerkinElmer Opera Flex | .flex, .mea, .res |
| FEI | .img |
| FEI TIFF | .tiff |
| FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) | .fits |
| Gatan Digital Micrograph | .dm3, .dm4 |
| Gatan Digital Micrograph 2 | .dm2 |
| GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) | .gif |
| Hamamatsu Aquacosmos NAF | .naf |
| Hamamatsu DCIMG | .dmg |
| Hamamatsu HIS | .his |
| Hamamatsu ndpi | .ndpi, .ndpis |
| Hamamatsu VMS | .vms |
| Hitachi S-4800 | .txt, .tif, .bmp, .jpg |
| I2I | .i2i |
| ICS (Image Cytometry Standard) | .ics, .ids |
| Imacon | .fff |
| ImagePro Sequence | .seq |
| ImagePro Workspace | .ipw |
| IMAGIC | .hed, .img |
| IMOD | .mod |
| Improvision Openlab LIFF | .liff |
| Improvision Openlab Raw | .raw |
| Improvision TIFF | .tif |
| Imspector OBF | .obf, .msr |
| InCell 1000/2000 | .xdce, .tif |
| InCell 3000 | .frm |
| Incucyte | .tif |
| INR | .inr |
| Inveon | .hdr |
| Ionpath MIBI | .tif, .tiff |
| IPLab | .ipl |
| IVision | .ipm |
| JEOL | .dat, .img, .par |
| JPEG | .jpg |
| JPEG 2000 | .jp2 |
| JPK | .jpk |
| JPX | .jpx |
| Keller Lab Block | .klb |
| Khoros VIFF (Visualization Image File Format) Bitmap | .xv |
| Kodak BIP | .bip |
| Lambert Instruments FLIM | .fli |
| LaVision Imspector | .msr |
| Leica LCS LEI | .lei, .tif |
| Leica LAS AF LIF (Leica Image File Format) | .lif |
| Leica SCN | .scn |
| LEO | .sxm, .tif, .tiff |
| Li-Cor L2D | .l2d, .tif, .scn |
| LIM (Laboratory Imaging/Nikon) | .lim |
| MetaMorph 7.5 TIFF | .tiff |
| MetaMorph Stack (STK) | .stk, .nd |
| MetaXpress TIFF | .htd, .tif, .tiff |
| MetaXpress (Database Connection) | |
| MIAS (Maia Scientific) | .tif |
| Micro-Manager | .tif, .txt, .xml |
| MicroCT | .vff |
| Mikroscan TIFF | .tif, .tiff |
| MINC MRI | .mnc |
| Minolta MRW | .mrw |
| MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) | .mng |
| Molecular Devices JDCE | .jdce |
| Molecular Imaging | .stp |
| MRC (Medical Research Council) | .mrc, .st, .ali, .map, .rec, .mrcs |
| NEF (Nikon Electronic Format) | .nef, .tif |
| NIfTI | .img, .hdr, .nii, .nii.gz |
| Nikon Elements TIFF | .tiff |
| Nikon EZ-C1 TIFF | .tiff |
| Nikon NIS-Elements ND2 | .nd2 |
| NRRD (Nearly Raw Raster Data) | .nrrd, .nhdr, .raw, .txt |
| Olympus omp2info | .omp2info |
| Olympus CellR/APL | .apl, .mtb, .tnb, .tif, .obsep |
| Olympus FluoView FV1000 | .oib, .oif |
| Olympus FluoView TIFF | .tif |
| Olympus OIR | .oir |
| Olympus ScanR | .xml, .dat, .tif |
| Olympus SIS TIFF | .tiff |
| OME-TIFF | .ome.tiff, .ome.tif, .ome.tf2, .ome.tf8, .ome.btf |
| OME-XML | .ome, .ome.xml |
| OMERO Pyramid | |
| Oxford Instruments | .top |
| PCORAW | .pcoraw, .rec |
| PCX (PC Paintbrush) | .pcx |
| Perkin Elmer Densitometer | .pds |
| PerkinElmer Columbus | .xml, .csv, .tif |
| PerkinElmer Nuance | .im3 |
| PerkinElmer Operetta | .tiff, .xml |
| PerkinElmer UltraVIEW | .tif, .2, .3, .4, etc. |
| PerkinElmer Vectra/QPTIFF | .tif, .tiff, .qptiff |
| Portable Any Map | .pbm, .pgm, .ppm |
| Adobe Photoshop PSD | .psd |
| Photoshop TIFF | .tif, .tiff |
| PicoQuant Bin | .bin |
| PICT (Macintosh Picture) | .pict |
| PNG (Portable Network Graphics) | .png |
| Prairie Technologies TIFF | .tif, .xml, .cfg |
| Princeton Instruments SPE | .spe |
| Quesant | .afm |
| QuickTime Movie | .mov |
| RCPNL | .rcpnl |
| RHK | .sm2, .sm3 |
| SBIG | |
| Seiko | .xqd, .xqf |
| SimplePCI & HCImage | .cxd |
| SimplePCI & HCImage TIFF | .tiff |
| SM Camera | |
| SPIDER | .spi, .stk |
| Targa | .tga |
| Tecan Spark Cyto | .db, .tif |
| Text | .txt |
| TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) | .tiff, .tif, .tf2, .tf8, .btf |
| TillPhotonics TillVision | .vws |
| TissueFAXS | .aqproj, .tfcyto |
| Topometrix | .tfr, .ffr, .zfr, .zfp, .2fl |
| Trestle | .tif, .sld, .jpg |
| UBM | .pr3 |
| Unisoku | .dat, .hdr |
| Varian FDF | .fdf |
| Veeco AFM | .hdf |
| Ventana | .bif |
| VG SAM | .dti |
| Vision Research Cine | .cine |
| VisiTech XYS | .xys, .html |
| Volocity | .mvd2 |
| Volocity Library Clipping | .acff |
| WA-TOP | .wat |
| Windows Bitmap | .bmp |
| Yokogawa CQ1 | .ome.tif |
| Zeiss Axio CSM | .lms |
| Zeiss AxioVision TIFF | .xml, .tif |
| Zeiss AxioVision ZVI (Zeiss Vision Image) | .zvi |
| Zeiss CZI | .czi |
| Zeiss LSM (Laser Scanning Microscope) 510/710 | .lsm, .mdb |
| Zeiss XRM | .txm, .txrm |
Conversion Only File Types
The following file formats are supported for conversion into open file formats using the open-source bioformats2raw library or the NGFF-Converter package.
| Format | File Extension(s) |
|---|---|
| 3D Histech MRXS | .mrxs |
| BioTek Cytation 5 | .tif |
| Fluidigm Hyperion | .mcd |