VisBio is a biological visualization tool designed for easy visualization and analysis of multidimensional image data. VisBio uses Bio-Formats to import files—actually, the Bio-Formats library originally grew out of our efforts to continually expand the file format support within VisBio.

VisBio is bundled with Bio-Formats, so no further installation is necessary.

If you wish to read certain kinds of compressed DICOM files, you will need to set up the optional native libraries.

If you wish to read compressed SVS files, you will need to set up the optional native library.

It should be possible to use a newer version of Bio-Formats by overwriting the old bio-formats.jar and optional libraries within the VisBio distribution. For Mac OS X, you'll have to control click the VisBio program icon, choose "Show Package Contents" and navigate into Contents/Resources/Java to find the JAR files.