The mcmicro pipeline currently has bioformats built into the first couple of modules, after which all image data is passed through and published as OME-TIFF. However we have been discussing whether normalizing all incoming data to OME-TIFF and/or OME-Zarr as a very first step would be a good idea. We also may want to switch to OME-Zarr as the intermediate file format within the pipeline and allow for options to control whether the published outputs are kept as Zarr or converted to TIFF.