Install¶

The bfio package can be installed with a variety of options designed in consideration of containerization.

Base Package¶

The base package can only read/write tiled, OME TIFF images. It can be installed using:

pip install bfio

To use Bioformats, it is necessary to install Java 8 or later. Once Java is installed, bfio can be installed with support for Java using:

pip install bfio[‘jpype’]

To use the zarr backend, you need to have Zarr already installed, or you can install it when installing bfio using:

pip install bfio[‘jpype’]