i hope a new format, be it N5 or OME-zarr, achieves critical mass. but i'm not holding my breath. NIfTI never really caught on, despite having a very nice spec.

i hope a new format, be it N5 or OME-zarr, achieves critical mass. but i'm not holding my breath. NIfTI never really caught on, despite having a very nice spec. unless scope manufacturers unite behind a format, biologists are going to keep writing bespoke analysis pipelines for the formats their images come in. it's going to take some top down regulation from the NSF/NIH requiring that all scopes support the open format of choice by a certain date to be eligible for purchase with grant money.