N5 is a library and API for storing large chunked n-dimensional tensors and arbitrary meta-data in a hierarchy of groups inspired by HDF5. It acts as an frontend for a diversity of storage backends, including a simple file-system based implementation, cloud-storage, the HDF5 format, and the Zarr format.
A Fiji plugin enables:
- image writing with ImageJ using File › Save As › HDF5/N5/Zarr/OME-NGFF …
- image reading with File › Import › HDF5/N5/Zarr/OME-NGFF …
Another plugin lets you open datasets with BigDataViewer with File › Plugins › HDF5/N5/Zarr/OME-NGFF Viewer.
User documentation
User documentation can be found on github
Developer resources
Details for developers can be found at the N5 repository.
