To create a patched version of bioformats cherry pick those commits. Cellomics dropbox speedup: commit ff038535ff26f1c94c0f67b69229f212edf963b0 Author: Roger Leigh Date: Tue May 7 10:28:25 2013 +0100 CellomicsReader: Improve performance of initFile Move checking for hidden files to inside the loop over the file list. This avoids creating a Location object for each file twice: inside the loop and in Location.list(). -- apply patch from cellomics_dropbox_speedup.txt TODO: this patch is pending pull request in bioformats library. Replace entry in this file with commit id when request is pulled to bioformats. SOB-122: commit 54c71f3e17e01112567e1fe726508390af010e04 Author: Melissa Linkert Date: Tue Mar 19 14:45:00 2013 -0400 LZW: prevent reading beyond the end of the stream Fixes #10525. ~