has specified data input has specified data output has format specification Image Textual format CEL binary format R software Text data set 'EBImage' Nandini Badarinarayan http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/html/EBImage.html EBImage is an R package which provides general purpose functionality for the reading, writing, processing and analysis of images. Furthermore, in the context of microscopy based cellular assays, EBImage offers tools to transform the images, segment cells and extract quantitative cellular descriptors. image format