BigDataProcessor2: a free and open-source Fiji plugin for inspection and processing of TB sized image data
Christian Tischer, Ashis Ravindran, Sabine Reither, Nicolas Chiaruttini, Rainer Pepperkok, Nils Norlin
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.