OME-Zarr / NGFF
Cloud-native chunked format for bioimaging, including whole slides.
Matters if slides are going to the cloud — proprietary scanner formats were not designed for that.
- Cost
- Free
- Hardware
- Runs on any laptop
- Scanner
- Not required
- Your data
- Stays on your machine
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause
- Maturity
- production
- From
- Open Microscopy Environment
What it is
Next-generation file format storing large multi-resolution images as chunked arrays, designed to be read efficiently from object storage rather than a local disk.
Activity: 168 stars · last commit 2026-07-31 — refreshed nightly
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