The MRC file format history is complex. As indicated in the linked Wikipedia page, it was originally developed by the MRC-LMB (hence the name), has been extended to support electron cryo-microscopy. Its maintenance migrated to the CCP-EM project and there are a few extensions of the CCP-EM MRC standard including the version generated by IMOD which is linked from the documentation.
We should probably amend the documentation page to reflect the current status of the development/ownership of the format and clarify the modes which are expected to be supported by the Bio-Formats reader.
sbesson
commented
7 months ago
While reviewing https://github.com/ome/bioformats/pull/3975, I came across our documentation page at https://bio-formats.readthedocs.io/en/stable/formats/mrc.html and this raised a few questions.
The MRC file format history is complex. As indicated in the linked Wikipedia page, it was originally developed by the MRC-LMB (hence the name), has been extended to support electron cryo-microscopy. Its maintenance migrated to the CCP-EM project and there are a few extensions of the CCP-EM MRC standard including the version generated by IMOD which is linked from the documentation.
We should probably amend the documentation page to reflect the current status of the development/ownership of the format and clarify the modes which are expected to be supported by the Bio-Formats reader.