Software for viewing *.tif files?

[cement_head]

Hello,

If I wanted to reprocess Illumina MiSeq tiff files, what software should I use?

Regards,
CH

[Richard Finney]

What do you want to do? "Process" is a pretty open term. Are these "tiff files" the raw data off of the instrument? That could be quite a challenge.

Otherwise ...

Imagemagick is great for batch processing files : http://www.imagemagick.org/

GIMP and MsPaint are free tools if you just need to hand mark up a few images.

[GenoMax]

If you only want to view files (since the title of your post says that) try: http://www.irfanview.com/ This will handle different bit depth files.

[sklages]

With the Illumina TIFF I had problems opening in "standard" image viewer (bit depth).
ImageJ (http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/) works just fine, used it for GAIIx images.

.. but I wonder if the MiSeq really keeps the TIFF files ..?

[JamieHeather]

You can force it to if you need to. We tried it once, but then ran up against a bit of a wall; MiSeqs handle their tiffs differently to HiSeq and GAIIs, so the available software doesn't work on them.

[snetmcom]

i would also vote for irfanview. It has batch editing tools that are real handy.

[sklages]

Well, OK, on Windows I'd go for IrfanView as well .. as I am working on linux ImageJ is doing an excellent job on such image files.