fractal-lif-converters 0.7.0

Converter from the Lif files (Leica Microscope) to OME-Zarr format.

Fractal LIF Converters

A collection of Fractal tasks to convert Leica .lif files into OME-Zarr format.

Tasks

Task	Use case
Convert Lif Plate to OME-Zarr	Convert a .lif containing a plate-shaped tile-scan into an OME-Zarr HCS plate.
Convert Lif Image to OME-Zarr	Convert a single image (single-position, multi-position, or mosaic) into a standalone OME-Zarr image.

Each task is a Fractal compound task: an init step parses the .lif metadata and builds the parallelization list, and a compute step writes the image data well-by-well (or scene-by-scene).

Installation

pip install fractal-lif-converters

Part of the OME-Zarr converters ecosystem

This converter is a thin, format-specific layer built on ome-zarr-converters-tools, the shared engine that handles tiling, image registration, and OME-Zarr writing for the whole Fractal converter family. Because they all share that engine, every converter offers the same options, behavior, and development workflow.

Sibling converters built on the same tooling:

• fractal-czi-converters — Zeiss .czi
• fractal-nd2-converters — Nikon .nd2
• fractal-uzh-converters — HCS plates (Operetta, ScanR, CQ3K, CellVoyager, ImageXpress, custom TIFF)

Documentation

Full documentation — including the supported file layouts, all converter parameters, and the condition-table format — is available at https://fractal-analytics-platform.github.io/fractal-lif-converters/.