[ome-users] File format for HTS/HCS data

[Kai Schleicher]

Hi,

We are looking for a container-file format to store HTS/HCS data. This 
format needs to be read and written by Bio-formats.

The reason is that our storage file system deals much better with a few 
large files than with many small files. Hence we'd expect to increase 
usability and performance drastically when handling the data.

The output files of our microscope is for example *.HTD (metadata / 
structure) next to  *.TIF (images and thumbnails). Here each position, 
channel, time-point and plane are saved as individual *.TIFs. This 
creates a lot of images for each multi-well plate screen.

So far we have been looking into CellH5 which looks promising but 
development appears discontinued (correct me if I am wrong). Are there 
alternatives?

Thanks for your help and cheers,
Kai

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