OpenSlide#

OpenSlide is a C library that provides a simple interface to read whole-slide images (also known as virtual slides). The current version is 3.4.1, released 2015-04-20.

Read more about OpenSlide on their website.

Licensing#

Distributed under a GNU Lesser General Public License v2.

The OpenSlide module on the HPC#

The OpenSlide module can be loaded into your environment with the following command:

$ module add openslide

The OpenSlide module is available on ARC3:

System

Version

Command

ARC3

openslide 3.4.1

module add openslide/3.4.1