Download BioImage Suite Version 2.5

From this page you may download version 2.5. SVN repository version 2366. Last updated Jan 30, 2008.

If you are looking to download the most recent 3.01 version of BioImage Suite, go to the main download page.

Installation Overview

All files required for the installation of BioImage Suite, unless otherwise stated, are available from this web-page. In general installing BioImage Suite consists of four steps:

1. Installation of a pre-compiled binary itk241_ distribution containing the Insight Toolkit (ITK) v 2.4.1. For more information on ITK see www.itk.org
2. Installation of a combo binary vtk44_yale distribution containing the Tcl/Tk scripting language, various extensions and the Visualization Toolkit. This includes binary versions of:
   • The Tcl/Tk scripting language Tcl/Tk 8.4.11
   • The following Tcl/Tk Extensions:[ Incr Tcl ] 3.2.1, Metakit 2.4.93, Tcllib 1.8.1 and IWidgets 4.0.1
   • The CLapack numerical library CLapack 3
   • A slightly patched version of the Visualization Toolkit with TCL Wrapping VTK 4.4.2
3. Installaition of a combo binary bioimagesuite_extra which contains the MINC 2.0.11 distribution and Xercesc.
4. Installation of the BioImage Suite software package itself.

When upgrading BioImage Suite to a newer version only step 4 will need to be repeated. If the extras distribution was not previously installed -- this is new (July 2006) please also install it.