ome/bioformats
Bio-Formats is a Java library for reading and writing data in life sciences image file formats. It is developed by the Open Microscopy Environment. Bio-Formats is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL); commercial licenses are available from Glencoe Software.
Health Breakdown
Should you contribute to ome/bioformats?
ome/bioformats has a FoundDev health score of 85/100, which puts it in the active-and-maintained tier. The maintainer team is shipping recently, issues are being closed, and a PR you open this week has a realistic chance of being reviewed.
Last push was 0 days ago — that signals an actively maintained project. New issues are likely to get a maintainer response within days. The project is written primarily in Java, so prior Java experience will shorten ramp-up.
Licensed under GPL-2.0, a standard OSI-approved license — safe to contribute to under normal employer IP policies.