View OME-ZARR images

A variety of tools exist to view ome-zarr images in different frameworks.

Browser-based viewers

Web-based viewers are a simple way to access and view ome-zarr images located on a remote storage. The OME-NGFF-Validator provides an entrypoint to validation, introspection, and viewing of ome-zarr images in the browser:

Local viewers

Among the local viewers, napari is a popular choice for viewing and analyzing ome-zarr images in Python. It requires the installation of the napari-ome-zarr plugin.

pip install napari napari-ome-zarr

To open any local or remote ome-zarr image, just pass the URL to napari:

napari https://uk1s3.embassy.ebi.ac.uk/idr/zarr/v0.5/idr0062A/6001240_labels.zarr