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for enquiring about the status of this. We certainly have a growing backlog of many tens of new file formats. Amongst these, the Leica LOF file format is definitely a highly requested one and we definitely received a private specification as indicated on the
Leica LIF format page (</span><a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.1/formats/leica-lif.html" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.1/formats/leica-lif.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">).
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Developing
and testing new file format readers is significantly more costly than maintaining existing ones. Besides the work on the new reader, there is the establishment of all the testing infrastructure (</span><a href="https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/Bio-Formats/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/Bio-Formats/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">).
Our priorities are necessarily our current academic deliverables (</span><a href="http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/documents/2016-trdf-bioimaging-awarded-grants/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/documents/2016-trdf-bioimaging-awarded-grants/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">;
</span><a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/directories/biomedical-resource-technology-development-grants-people-funded" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/directories/biomedical-resource-technology-development-grants-people-funded</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">),
which do fund cross-platform resources for writing OME-TIFF (</span><a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">)
and support for several binary formats (BDV, etc.). While we certainly want to support as many formats as possible, the seemingly eternal development of new formats is hard to prioritise, given other pressing needs.</span></div>
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the other hand, we will review any external contribution with new reader additions and consider their inclusion in a minor release of Bio-Formats. Since the beginning of 2016, we have had several additions of this kind: PerkinElmer Columbus was developed for
the IDR project, Olympus OIR and Zeiss CZI/JPEG-XR were funded by a partnership between Glencoe Software and the commercial developer of the formats and 3i Slidebook was developed and is maintained by the 3i team (</span><a href="http://blog.openmicroscopy.org/file-formats/community/2016/08/31/bf-partnerships/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">http://blog.openmicroscopy.org/file-formats/community/2016/08/31/bf-partnerships/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">).
Of course, we always welcome independent community contributions to Bio-Formats as well (</span><a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/contributors/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/contributors/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">).
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I would like to add my voice to those of the many Leica SP8 users I’m sure you’ve heard from who are desperately hoping BioFormats will soon support the Leica .LOF data format. We use Fiji every day. We have just upgraded from an antique SP2 to a lovely new
SP8, only to discover that we can’t open the files generated using Fiji because BioFormats doesn’t support this format. From my searching on line, it appears that BioFormats received a specification document for the .LOF format from Leica last year (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.openmicroscopy.org_bio-2Dformats_5.3.4_formats_leica-2Dlif.html&d=DQMGaQ&c=j5oPpO0eBH1iio48DtsedbOBGmuw5jHLjgvtN2r4ehE&r=oU_05LztNstAydlbm5L5GDu_vAdjXk3frDLx_CqKkuo&m=83B3kTEKmZjrE9dXtxLGrPtsWYebJdr4dtgiP5jvkJQ&s=wu4xD5UlwxiyekSLB2OiHsFpkZQ5NUxVlq5Nl_Lghcw&e=" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.3.4/formats/leica-lif.html</a>),
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My impression is that there are a significant number of SP8 systems installed world wide, so I would hope this is a high priority. Can anyone provide more information about this?<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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P.S. Please reply directly to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bryanc@unb.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bryanc@unb.ca</a>, as I’m not a regular subscriber to this list<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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