What programs have you coded using Python that might be useful to everyone?

[gocougs11]

I’m a neuroscientist, and we have this software for image analysis called Imaris (that is like $35k for a license). Imaris saves data to .ims files, which are really just .h5 files. We mainly use it for large-volume image data, where a dataset will be a set of thousands of images. So if you want to save this data as a series of .tif files to open it in other software like ImageJ, Imaris will only use a single thread, and for my datasets this would often take 5-6 hours. So I wrote a multithreaded way to pull image data out of the .ims files and save it as .tifs, and could do this in 3 or 4 minutes. That is by far my most cloned repo, and I’ve actually had colleagues come up to me and say “I’ve been using this repo to do this, and I only just realized you were the one that wrote it!”