BigDataProcessor2: a free and open-source Fiji plugin for inspection and processing of TB sized image data

Bioinformatics. 2021 Sep 29;37(18):3079-3081. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab106.

Abstract

Summary: Modern bioimaging and related areas such as sensor technology have undergone tremendous development over the last few years. As a result, contemporary imaging techniques, particularly electron microscopy (EM) and light sheet microscopy, can frequently generate datasets attaining sizes of several terabytes (TB). As a consequence, even seemingly simple data operations such as cropping, chromatic- and drift-corrections and even visualisation, poses challenges when applied to thousands of time points or tiles. To address this we developed BigDataProcessor2-a Fiji plugin facilitating processing workflows for TB sized image datasets.

Availability and implementation: BigDataProcessor2 is available as a Fiji plugin via the BigDataProcessor update site. The application is implemented in Java and the code is publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/bigdataprocessor/bigdataprocessor2).

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Fiji
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods
  • Microscopy* / methods
  • Software*
  • Workflow