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+LOCI Bio-Formats plugins for ImageJ
+
+The Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) is
+a biophotonics instrumentation laboratory with a mission is to develop
+advanced optical and computational techniques for imaging and
+experimentally manipulating living specimens.
+
+Bio-Formats is a standalone Java library for reading and writing life
+sciences image file formats. It is capable of parsing both pixels and
+metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several
+formats.
+
+This is the LOCI tools complete bundle and contains everything needed
+to read images into ImageJ using Bio-Formats.