Merge pull request #284 from thewtex/ngff-zarr-0.5

rfc/2/index.md

@@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ See [Background](#background) for a list of v3-capable Zarr libraries.
 
 Support for the OME-Zarr 0.5 metadata is under development in [ome-zarr-py](https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/pull/383/files) and other implementations.
 
+[ngff-zarr](https://ngff-zarr.readthedocs.io/) supports creating [OME-Zarr 0.5
+from
+Python](https://ngff-zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/python.html#array-to-ngff-image)
+via Zarr-Python or
+[Tensorstore](https://ngff-zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/python.html#writing-with-tensorstore),
+[converting
+OME-Zarr](https://ngff-zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/python.html#convert-ome-zarr-versions)
+version 0.4 to 0.5 and 0.5 to 0.4, [validating OME-Zarr 0.5
+metadata](https://ngff-zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/python.html#validate-ome-zarr-metadata),
+and [converting other file formats to OME-Zarr
+0.5](https://ngff-zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html).
+
 ## Drawbacks, risks, alternatives, and unknowns
 
 While it is clear that Zarr v3 will become the predominant version of the specification moving forward, current library support for v3 is still under active development.

tools/index.md

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ In addition to this collection, an evaluation of selected tools/libraries is ava
 | AICS Image Viewer | [![image](https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg)](https://github.com/allen-cell-animated/website-3d-cell-viewer) | A browser-based volume viewer built with React and WebGL (Three.js). |
 
 ## File Conversion
+
+Many of the tools in the *File Reading/Writing* section below also support format conversion.
+
 | Name    | Link | Description |
 | -------- | ------- | ------- |
 | bioformats2raw | [![image](https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg)](https://github.com/glencoesoftware/bioformats2raw) | Java application to convert image file formats, including .mrxs, to an intermediate Zarr structure compatible with the OME-NGFF specification. |
@@ -45,4 +48,4 @@ Various libraries for reading/writing OME-Zarr files in Python were evaluated as
 | Nyxus | [![image](https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg)](https://github.com/PolusAI/nyxus) | A scalable library for calculating features from intensity-label image data. |
 | ome-ngff-validator | [![image](https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg)](https://github.com/ome/ome-ngff-validator) | Web page for validating OME-NGFF files. |
 | SpatialData | [![image](https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg)](https://github.com/scverse/spatialdata) | An open and universal framework for processing spatial omics data. |
-| tensorstore | [![image](https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg)](https://github.com/google/tensorstore/) | Library for reading and writing large multi-dimensional arrays (e.g., Zarr). |
+| tensorstore | [![image](https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg)](https://github.com/google/tensorstore/) | Library for reading and writing large multi-dimensional arrays (e.g., Zarr). |