Introduction
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``bioimageit_core`` is the main library of the BioImageIT project. It implements all the functions needed by scientists to 
facilitate data management and analysis.
``bioimageit_core`` can interact with datasets stored in file systems or with a database like Omero for example.
``bioimageit_core`` is able to run data processing tools using wrappers and packaging systems (Conda) or using containers
(Docker, Singularity).

Context
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``bioimageit_core`` has been developed by **Sylvain Prigent** in a project funded by `France-BioImaging <https://france-bioimaging.org/>`_.
``bioimageit_core`` is just the python API of the project. Please find all the other developed tools `here <https://github.com/bioimageit/>`_.

What bioimageit_core is
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`bioimageit_core` is a python3 library the provide a python API to facilitate writing data processing scripts, wrapping data 
analysis tools from any language and ease communication with an experiment database.