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See also [[Health and Medicine]] for medical/biomedical data formats, and also see [[Engineering]].
  
 
== General ==
 
== General ==
* [[cdf]] (Common Data Format)
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* [[Common Data Format]] (CDF)
 
* [[EAS3]] (binary file format for structured data)
 
* [[EAS3]] (binary file format for structured data)
* [[hdf]] (Hierarchical Data Format, originally from NCSA, now maintained by The HDF Group)
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* [[HDF]] (Hierarchical Data Format, originally from NCSA, now maintained by The HDF Group)
 
** [[HDF4]]
 
** [[HDF4]]
** [[HDF5}}
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** [[HDF5]]
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* [[IGOR]] (.ibw)
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* [[NRRD]] (Nearly Raw Raster Data -- a simple format for n-dimensional raster data)
 
* [[NetCDF]] (Network Common Data Format)
 
* [[NetCDF]] (Network Common Data Format)
* There are several formats abbreviated as [[SDF]], including:
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* [[ROOT]] (CERN data-analysis package and related formats, used in their Open Data initiative)
** [[Simple Data format]] (SDF) By George H. Fisher, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley (A platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large, multi-dimensional arrays)
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** [[Simple Data format-DPT]] A new format from the Data Protocols Team for publishing and sharing data
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** [[Standard Delay Format]] A standard data structure for timing data
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** [[Structure Data File]]  A file format for a chemical table file
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* [[SDXF]] (Structured Data Exchange Format)
 
* [[SDXF]] (Structured Data Exchange Format)
 
* [[Silo]] (a storage format for visualization developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
 
* [[Silo]] (a storage format for visualization developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
* [[XDF]] (eXtensible Data Format)
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* [[Simple Data format]] (SDF) By George H. Fisher, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley (A platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large, multi-dimensional arrays)
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* [[Standard Delay Format]] (SDF) A standard data structure for timing data
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* [[XDF (Extensible Data Format)]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Data_Format]
 
* [[XSIL]] (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language)
 
* [[XSIL]] (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language)
  
 
== Astronomical and Space ==
 
== Astronomical and Space ==
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* [[Advanced Scientific Data Format]]
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* [[CPA (PRISM)]]
 
* [[Flexible Image Transport System]] (FITS)
 
* [[Flexible Image Transport System]] (FITS)
* [[PDS/ODL]] (Planetary Data System)
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** [[PSRFITS]] (Pulsar data storage standard)
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* [[ICER]]
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* [[NASA Raster Metafile]]
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* [[ODL (NASA Object Description Language)]]
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* [[PDS]] (Planetary Data System)
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* [[PDS4]]
 
* [[VOTable]] (IVOA standard table format)
 
* [[VOTable]] (IVOA standard table format)
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* [[SBIG CCDOPS image]]
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* [[Standard Archive Format]] (used for USAF missile data)
 
* [[Starlink_Data_Format|SDF]] (Starlink Data Format) and [[N-Dimensional_Data_Format|NDF]] (Starlink's Extensible N-Dimensional Data Format).
 
* [[Starlink_Data_Format|SDF]] (Starlink Data Format) and [[N-Dimensional_Data_Format|NDF]] (Starlink's Extensible N-Dimensional Data Format).
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* [[VICAR]]
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* [[WinMiPS]]
  
 
== Biological ==
 
== Biological ==
  
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* [[23andMe]]
 
* [[AB1]] (Chromatogram files used by DNA sequencing instruments from Applied Biosystems)
 
* [[AB1]] (Chromatogram files used by DNA sequencing instruments from Applied Biosystems)
 
* [[ABCD]] (Access to Biological Collection Data)
 
* [[ABCD]] (Access to Biological Collection Data)
* [[ABCDDNA]] (Access to Biological Collection Data DNA extension)
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* [[ABCD#ABCDDNA|ABCDDNA]] (Access to Biological Collection Data DNA extension)
* [[ABCDEFG]] (Access to Biological Collection Data Extension For Geosciences)
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* [[ABCD#ABCDEFG|ABCDEFG]] (Access to Biological Collection Data Extension For Geosciences)
* [[ACE]] (Sequence assembly format)
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* [[ACE (Sequence assembly)|ACE]] (Sequence assembly format)
 
* [[Affymetrix Raw Intensity Format]]
 
* [[Affymetrix Raw Intensity Format]]
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* [[AnnData Object]] (.h5ad)
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* [[ARF (Axon Raw Format)]]
 
* [[ARLEQUIN Project Format]]
 
* [[ARLEQUIN Project Format]]
 
* [[Axt Alignment Format]]
 
* [[Axt Alignment Format]]
* [[BAM]] (Binary compressed SAM format)
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* [[BAM (Binary Alignment Map)|BAM]] (Binary compressed SAM format)
 
* [[BED]] (Browser extensible display format describing genes and other features of DNA sequences)
 
* [[BED]] (Browser extensible display format describing genes and other features of DNA sequences)
 
* [[BEDgraph]]
 
* [[BEDgraph]]
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* [[BLAT alignment Format]]
 
* [[BLAT alignment Format]]
 
* [[BRIX generated O Format]]  
 
* [[BRIX generated O Format]]  
* [[CAF]] (Common Assembly Format for sequence assembly)
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* [[CAF (Common Assembly Format)|CAF]] (Common Assembly Format for sequence assembly)
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* [[CASTEP]]
 
* [[CellML]]
 
* [[CellML]]
 
* [[CHADO XML interchange Format]]
 
* [[CHADO XML interchange Format]]
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* [[CLUSTAL-W Dendrogram Guide File Format]]
 
* [[CLUSTAL-W Dendrogram Guide File Format]]
 
* [[Clustered Data Table Format]]
 
* [[Clustered Data Table Format]]
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* [[Complete Genomics]]
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* [[CRAM]]
 
* [[DELTA]] (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
 
* [[DELTA]] (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
 
* [[DAS]] (Distributed Sequence Annotation System)
 
* [[DAS]] (Distributed Sequence Annotation System)
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* [[ENCODE]] (Peak information Format)
 
* [[ENCODE]] (Peak information Format)
 
* [[FASTA and FASTQ]] (File format for sequence data, FASTQ with quality)
 
* [[FASTA and FASTQ]] (File format for sequence data, FASTQ with quality)
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* [[FAST5]] (.fast5)
 
* [[FuGEFlow]]
 
* [[FuGEFlow]]
 
* [[FuGE-ML]] (Functional Genomics Experiment Markup Language)
 
* [[FuGE-ML]] (Functional Genomics Experiment Markup Language)
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* [[HMMER]]
 
* [[HMMER]]
 
* [[ICB]] (ICM binary file Format)
 
* [[ICB]] (ICM binary file Format)
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* [[Image Cytometry Experiment]] (ICE)
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* [[Image Cytometry Standard]] (ICS)
 
* [[imzML]] (imaging mz Markup Language)
 
* [[imzML]] (imaging mz Markup Language)
 
* [[ISA-Tab]] (Investigation Study Assay Tabular)
 
* [[ISA-Tab]] (Investigation Study Assay Tabular)
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* [[ODM]] (Operational Data Model)
 
* [[ODM]] (Operational Data Model)
 
* [[Open Biomedical Ontology Flat File Format]]
 
* [[Open Biomedical Ontology Flat File Format]]
* [[PDB]] (Structures of biomolecules deposited in Protein Data Bank)
 
 
* [[Personal Genome SNP Format]]
 
* [[Personal Genome SNP Format]]
 
* [[PHD]] (Output from the basecalling software Phred)
 
* [[PHD]] (Output from the basecalling software Phred)
 
* [[phyloXML]] (XML for evolutionary biology and comparative genomics)
 
* [[phyloXML]] (XML for evolutionary biology and comparative genomics)
 
* [[Pre-Clustering File Format]]
 
* [[Pre-Clustering File Format]]
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* [[Protein Data Bank]] (PDB; Structures of biomolecules deposited in Protein Data Bank)
 
* [[Protein InFormation Resource Format]]
 
* [[Protein InFormation Resource Format]]
 
* [[PRM]] (Protocol Representation Model (Medical Research))
 
* [[PRM]] (Protocol Representation Model (Medical Research))
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* [[SDD]] (Structured Descriptive Data)
 
* [[SDD]] (Structured Descriptive Data)
 
* [[SED-ML]] (Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language)
 
* [[SED-ML]] (Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language)
* [[Sequence Alignment Map Format]]
 
 
* [[SOFT]] (Simple Omnibus Format in Text)
 
* [[SOFT]] (Simple Omnibus Format in Text)
 
* [[spML]] (Separation Markup Language)
 
* [[spML]] (Separation Markup Language)
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* [[VCF]] (Variant Call Format)
 
* [[VCF]] (Variant Call Format)
 
* [[Wiggle Format]]
 
* [[Wiggle Format]]
 
== Biomedical signals (time series) ==
 
 
* [[ACQ]] (AcqKnowledge)
 
* [[BCI2000]] (The BCI2000 project)
 
* [[BioSemi]] (BDF) data format
 
* [[BKR]] (EEG data format)
 
* [[CFWB]] (Chart Data File Format)
 
* [[DICOM-Waveform]] (An extension of Dicom for storing waveform data)
 
* [[ecgML]] (A markup language for electrocardiogram data acquisition and analysis)
 
* [[EDF/EDF+]] (European Data Format)
 
* [[FEF]] (File Exchange Format for Vital signs, CEN TS 14271)
 
* [[GDF v1.x]] (General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 1.x)
 
* [[GDF v2.x]] (The General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 2.x)
 
* [[HL7aECG]] (Health Level 7 v3 annotated ECG)
 
* [[OpenXDF]] (Open Exchange Data Format)
 
* [[SCP-ECG]] (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
 
* [[SIGIF]] (A digital SIGnal Interchange Format)
 
* [[WFDB]] (Format of Physiobank)
 
  
 
== Chemical ==
 
== Chemical ==
 
* [[CCP4]] (X-ray crystallography voxels (electron density))
 
* [[CCP4]] (X-ray crystallography voxels (electron density))
* [[CDX]] (ChemDraw file format)
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* [[CDX (ChemDraw Exchange)|CDX]] (ChemDraw file format)
 
* [[CDXML]] (ChemDraw file format)
 
* [[CDXML]] (ChemDraw file format)
* [[CHM]] (ChemDraw file format)
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* [[CHM (ChemDraw)|CHM]] (ChemDraw file format)
 
* [[CIF]] (Crystallographic Information File, standardised by IUCr)
 
* [[CIF]] (Crystallographic Information File, standardised by IUCr)
 
* [[CML]] (Chemical markup language)
 
* [[CML]] (Chemical markup language)
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* [[MRC]] (voxels in cryo-electron microscopy)
 
* [[MRC]] (voxels in cryo-electron microscopy)
 
* [[MST]] ACD/ChemSketch v1 file format
 
* [[MST]] ACD/ChemSketch v1 file format
* [[PDB]] (Protein Data Bank)
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* [[Protein Data Bank]] (PDB)
* [[RPT]] ACD/ChemSketch v1 file format
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* [[RPT (OpenLynx)]] Waters OpenLynx reports
 
* [[RXN]] (Reaction file format)
 
* [[RXN]] (Reaction file format)
 
* [[SK2]] (ACD/ChemSketch v2 file format)
 
* [[SK2]] (ACD/ChemSketch v2 file format)
 
* [[SKC]] (ISIS/Draw file format)
 
* [[SKC]] (ISIS/Draw file format)
 
* [[SMILES]] (Simplified molecular input line entry specification, .smi)
 
* [[SMILES]] (Simplified molecular input line entry specification, .smi)
* [[SPC]] (spectroscopic data)
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* [[SPC (Spectroscopic Data)]]
 
* [[Structure Data File]] (SDF)
 
* [[Structure Data File]] (SDF)
 
* [[TGF]] (ISIS/Draw reaction file format)
 
* [[TGF]] (ISIS/Draw reaction file format)
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* [[XYZ Chem]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ_file_format Wiki]
  
 
Chemical data may be distinguished in various ways, including [http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/ Chemical MIME] types.
 
Chemical data may be distinguished in various ways, including [http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/ Chemical MIME] types.
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== Earth Sciences ==
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* [[Adaptable Seismic Data Format]]
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* [[Network-Day Tape]]
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* [[QuakeML]]
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* [[SEED]]
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* [[SEG-D]] (formats, mostly tape based, for seismic data)
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* [[SEG Y]] (Reflection seismology data format)
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* [[SEIS-PROV]]
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* [[StationXML]]
  
 
== Ecological ==
 
== Ecological ==
 
* [[Darwin Core]] (Standard for sharing information about biological diversity)
 
* [[Darwin Core]] (Standard for sharing information about biological diversity)
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* [[Electronic Data Deliverable]] (EDD; EPA Superfund)
 
* [[EML (Ecological Metadata Language)]], not to be confused with [[EML (Environmental Markup Language)]]
 
* [[EML (Ecological Metadata Language)]], not to be confused with [[EML (Environmental Markup Language)]]
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== Environmental ==
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* [[HYT]] (AquiferTest)
  
 
== Geographic and Geospatial ==
 
== Geographic and Geospatial ==
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* [[GeoTIFF]] (Geospatial extensions to TIFF)
 
* [[GeoTIFF]] (Geospatial extensions to TIFF)
 
* [[GML]] (Geography Markup Language)
 
* [[GML]] (Geography Markup Language)
* [[HDFEOS, HD2, HD4]] (Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System)
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* [[HDF-EOS]] (Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System)[https://hdfeos.org/ 1] (HD2, HD4, HD5)
 
* [[KML]] (KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language), Version 2.2)
 
* [[KML]] (KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language), Version 2.2)
 
* [[NDF]] (National Landsat Archive Production System (NLAPS) Data Format)
 
* [[NDF]] (National Landsat Archive Production System (NLAPS) Data Format)
 
* [[SAIF]] (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, Canadian)
 
* [[SAIF]] (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, Canadian)
 
* [[SDTS]] (Spatial Data Transfer Standard)
 
* [[SDTS]] (Spatial Data Transfer Standard)
* [[shp and shx]] (ESRI [[Shapefile]] must have components; other optional components as well, see entry)
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* [[Shapefile]] (ESRI, shp/shx)
 
* [[MrSID]] (MrSID- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database)
 
* [[MrSID]] (MrSID- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database)
 
* [[TAB]] (MapInfo dataset format, must have component)
 
* [[TAB]] (MapInfo dataset format, must have component)
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* [[Bathymetric Attributed Grid]] (.bag)
  
 
== Mathematical ==
 
== Mathematical ==
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* [[AsciiMath]]
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* [[DOT (graph description language)]]
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* [[GEXF]] (Graph Exchange XML Format)
 
* [[graph6, sparse6]] (ASCII encoding of Adjacency matrices (.g6, .s6))
 
* [[graph6, sparse6]] (ASCII encoding of Adjacency matrices (.g6, .s6))
 
* [[graphML]] (Graph Markup Language)
 
* [[graphML]] (Graph Markup Language)
* [[m]] (MATLAB script file)
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* GraphPad Prism
* [[M]] (Mathematica package file)
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** [[PZM]]
* [[MAT]] (MATLAB matrix data format)
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** [[PZF]]
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** [[PZFX]]
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** [[PRISM]]
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* [[JMP]] (.jmp)
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* [[KaleidaGraph]] (.qda, .qdc)
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* [[Life 1.05]]
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* [[Life 1.06]]
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* [[MacWavelets]]
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* Mathematica
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** [[Computable Document Format]] (.cdf)
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** [[Mathematica notebook]] (.nb, .nbp)
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** [[Mathematica package file]] (M)
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** [[Wolfram Language]]
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* [[Macrocell]]
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* [[MCell]]
 
* [[MathML]]
 
* [[MathML]]
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* MATLAB
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** [[MAT]] (MATLAB data format)
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** [[Matlab figure]]
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** [[MATLAB script file]] (m)
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** [[Matlab Model]] (.mdl, .slx)
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* [[Minitab]] (.mtw, .mpj)
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* [[NPY and NPZ (NumPy)]]
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* [[OPJ]] (Origin data format)
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* [[PDL]] (Perl Data Language)
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* [[Plaintext (cellular automata)]]
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* [[RLE (cellular automata)]]
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* [[Rule (Golly)]]
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* [[Small Object Format]]
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* [[Statistica]]
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** [[CSS Software]] (Complete Statistical System)
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** [[CSS STATISTICA]]
 
* [[WP2]] WinPlot
 
* [[WP2]] WinPlot
  
== Medical Imaging ==
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== Microscopy ==  
* [[AFNI]] (data, meta-data (.BRIK,.HEAD))
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*       [[MGH]] (uncompressed)
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* [[Amber ARR Bitmap Image]]
*       [[MGZ]] (zip-compressed)
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* [[Aperio SVS]]
* [[Analyze data, meta-data]] (.img,.hdr)
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* [[Bio]]
* [[DICOM]] (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (.dcm))
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* [[BioRad confocal image]]
* [[MINC]] (Medical Imaging NetCDF format; since version 2.0, based on HDF5 (.mnc))
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* [[DeltaVision]]
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* [[DM2]] (Gatan Digital Micrograph 2)
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* [[DM3]] (Gatan Digital Micrograph 3)
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* [[DM4]] (Gatan Digital Micrograph 4)
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* [[GATAN]]
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* [[HMSA]] (.msa)
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* [[Image Cytometry Experiment]] (ICE)
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* [[Image Cytometry Standard]] (ICS)
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* [[KONTRON]]
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* [[LIFF]] (Openlab Layered Image File Format)  
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* [[LSM]] (Zeiss Light Speed Microscope)
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* [[MetaMorph Stack]] (.stk)
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* [[MRC]] (Medical Research Council)
 
* [[OME-TIFF]] (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
 
* [[OME-TIFF]] (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
 
* [[OME-XML]] (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
 
* [[OME-XML]] (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
* [[OST (Open Spatio-Temporal)]] (extensible, open alternative for microscope images)
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* [[SMV]]
* [[nii]] (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative (NIfTI) single-file (combined data and meta-data))
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* [[VGS-8]]
* [[gii]] (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, single-file (combined data and meta-data) style)
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* [[Zeiss BIVAS]]
* [[.img,.hdr]] (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, dual-file (separate data and meta-data, respectively) style)
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* [[SDM]] (Signed Differential Mapping- brain maps(.sdm))
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== Neutron and X-ray Scattering ==
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* [[canSAS]] (tools for small-angle scattering)
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* [[CIF]] (Crystallographic Information File, standardised by IUCr)
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* [[NeXus]] (NeXus is a common data format for neutron, x-ray, and muon science)
  
 
== Oceanographic, Atmospheric and Meteorological ==
 
== Oceanographic, Atmospheric and Meteorological ==
  
* [[GRIB]] (Grid in Binary)
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* [[GRIB]] (Gridded Binary)
 
* [[BUFR]] (Binary Universal Format Representation)
 
* [[BUFR]] (Binary Universal Format Representation)
 
* [[IOAPI]] (netCDF augmented with metadata from the I/O API)
 
* [[IOAPI]] (netCDF augmented with metadata from the I/O API)
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* [[Meteosat data]]
 
* [[PP]] (UK Met Office format for weather model data)
 
* [[PP]] (UK Met Office format for weather model data)
  
 
== Physics ==
 
== Physics ==
  
* [[CGNS]] (Computational Fluid Dynamics General Notation System)
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See subcategory [[Physics data]]
* [[NeXuS]] (Common data format for neutron, x-ray and muon science)
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* [[QCDml]] (Lattice QCD gauge configuration markup language)
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== Scientific Signal data ==
 
== Scientific Signal data ==
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* [[EDF]] (European data format)
 
* [[EDF]] (European data format)
 
* [[FEF]] (File Exchange Format for Vital signs)
 
* [[FEF]] (File Exchange Format for Vital signs)
* [[GDF]] (General data formats for biomedical signals)
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* [[General Data Format for Biosignals]] (GDF)
 
* [[GMS]] (Gesture And Motion Signal format)
 
* [[GMS]] (Gesture And Motion Signal format)
 
* [[IROCK]] (intelliRock Sensor Data File Format)
 
* [[IROCK]] (intelliRock Sensor Data File Format)
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* [[REC]] (ATI Vision recorder file)
 
* [[REC]] (ATI Vision recorder file)
 
* [[SCP-ECG]] (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
 
* [[SCP-ECG]] (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
* [[SEG Y]] (Reflection seismology data format)
 
 
* [[SIGIF]] (SIGnal Interchange Format)
 
* [[SIGIF]] (SIGnal Interchange Format)
  
 
== Social Sciences ==
 
== Social Sciences ==
  
* [[Atlas.ti]] (Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis package)
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* [[Atlas.ti]] ([[Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis]] package)
* [[DDI]] (Data Documentation Initiative)
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* [[DDI (Data Documentation Initiative)|DDI]] (Data Documentation Initiative)
 
* [[DO]] ("DO file" command script for the [[Stata]] Statistical package)
 
* [[DO]] ("DO file" command script for the [[Stata]] Statistical package)
 
* [[DTA]] (Binary data file for the [[Stata]] Statistical package)
 
* [[DTA]] (Binary data file for the [[Stata]] Statistical package)
* [[NVivo]] (Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis package)
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* [[Linguistic Annotation Framework]] (LAF; used by computational linguists to annotate language samples)
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* [[M2k]] (MAXQDA)
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* [[NVivo]] ([[Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis]] package)
 
* [[R]] (Statistical package)
 
* [[R]] (Statistical package)
 
* [[SAS]] (Statistical package)
 
* [[SAS]] (Statistical package)
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** [[SAS Transport File]] (.xpt)
 
* [[SAV]] (Binary "[[SPSS]] data format" for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package)
 
* [[SAV]] (Binary "[[SPSS]] data format" for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package)
 
* [[SPO]] (Output file for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package - version 14)
 
* [[SPO]] (Output file for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package - version 14)
 
* [[SPS]] ("Syntax file" (plain text command script) for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package)
 
* [[SPS]] ("Syntax file" (plain text command script) for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package)
 
* [[SPV]] (Output file for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package - version 17 and later)
 
* [[SPV]] (Output file for the [[SPSS]] Statistical package - version 17 and later)
* [[Transana]] (Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis package)
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* [[Statistix]] (.sx)
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* [[Transana]] ([[Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis]] package)
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== Spectra ==
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* [[Bruker]] (XRF software, .pdz)
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* [[Niton]] (XRF software, .ndt)
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* [[EDAX Spectrum]] (.spc)
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* [[Thermo Scientific SPC]] (.spc)
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* [[EMSA/MAS]]
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* [[HMSA Hyper-Dimensional Data]]
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== Miscellaneous ==
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* [[AIML]] (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language)
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* [[EMD-DF64]] (used for high frequency energy monitoring)
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* [[IES]] (IESNA LM-63 Photometric Data File)
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* [[Jupyter Notebook]] (.ipynb)
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== Links ==
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* [http://cameronneylon.net/blog/improving-on-access-to-research/ Improving on “Access to Research”]
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* [[WikiBooks:Software Tools For Molecular Microscopy]]

Latest revision as of 01:20, 1 August 2024

File Format
Name Scientific Data formats
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See also Health and Medicine for medical/biomedical data formats, and also see Engineering.

Contents

[edit] General

  • Common Data Format (CDF)
  • EAS3 (binary file format for structured data)
  • HDF (Hierarchical Data Format, originally from NCSA, now maintained by The HDF Group)
  • IGOR (.ibw)
  • NRRD (Nearly Raw Raster Data -- a simple format for n-dimensional raster data)
  • NetCDF (Network Common Data Format)
  • ROOT (CERN data-analysis package and related formats, used in their Open Data initiative)
  • SDXF (Structured Data Exchange Format)
  • Silo (a storage format for visualization developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
  • Simple Data format (SDF) By George H. Fisher, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley (A platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large, multi-dimensional arrays)
  • Standard Delay Format (SDF) A standard data structure for timing data
  • XDF (Extensible Data Format) [1]
  • XSIL (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language)

[edit] Astronomical and Space

[edit] Biological

[edit] Chemical

  • CCP4 (X-ray crystallography voxels (electron density))
  • CDX (ChemDraw file format)
  • CDXML (ChemDraw file format)
  • CHM (ChemDraw file format)
  • CIF (Crystallographic Information File, standardised by IUCr)
  • CML (Chemical markup language)
  • CTab (Chemical table file .mol, .sd, .sdf)
  • HITRAN (spectroscopic data with one optical/infrared transition per line in the ASCII file (.hit))
  • JCAMP (Joint Committee on Atomic and Molecular Physical Data, .dx, .jdx)
  • MOL (MDL Molfile)
  • MOP (MOPAC format)
  • MRC (voxels in cryo-electron microscopy)
  • MST ACD/ChemSketch v1 file format
  • Protein Data Bank (PDB)
  • RPT (OpenLynx) Waters OpenLynx reports
  • RXN (Reaction file format)
  • SK2 (ACD/ChemSketch v2 file format)
  • SKC (ISIS/Draw file format)
  • SMILES (Simplified molecular input line entry specification, .smi)
  • SPC (Spectroscopic Data)
  • Structure Data File (SDF)
  • TGF (ISIS/Draw reaction file format)
  • XYZ Chem Wiki

Chemical data may be distinguished in various ways, including Chemical MIME types.

[edit] Earth Sciences

[edit] Ecological

[edit] Environmental

  • HYT (AquiferTest)

[edit] Geographic and Geospatial

See also Geospatial

  • DEM (Digital Elevation Model)
  • DOQ (Digital Orthophotos)
  • e00 (ESRI ArcInfo Interchange File)
  • FGDC (Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata??)
  • GeoTIFF (Geospatial extensions to TIFF)
  • GML (Geography Markup Language)
  • HDF-EOS (Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System)1 (HD2, HD4, HD5)
  • KML (KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language), Version 2.2)
  • NDF (National Landsat Archive Production System (NLAPS) Data Format)
  • SAIF (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, Canadian)
  • SDTS (Spatial Data Transfer Standard)
  • Shapefile (ESRI, shp/shx)
  • MrSID (MrSID- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database)
  • TAB (MapInfo dataset format, must have component)
  • Bathymetric Attributed Grid (.bag)

[edit] Mathematical

[edit] Microscopy

[edit] Neutron and X-ray Scattering

  • canSAS (tools for small-angle scattering)
  • CIF (Crystallographic Information File, standardised by IUCr)
  • NeXus (NeXus is a common data format for neutron, x-ray, and muon science)

[edit] Oceanographic, Atmospheric and Meteorological

  • GRIB (Gridded Binary)
  • BUFR (Binary Universal Format Representation)
  • IOAPI (netCDF augmented with metadata from the I/O API)
  • Meteosat data
  • PP (UK Met Office format for weather model data)

[edit] Physics

See subcategory Physics data

[edit] Scientific Signal data

  • ACQ (AcqKnowledge File Format for Windows)
  • BioSemi (BDF) data format
  • BKR (EEG data format)
  • CFWB (Chart Data File Format)
  • EDF (European data format)
  • FEF (File Exchange Format for Vital signs)
  • General Data Format for Biosignals (GDF)
  • GMS (Gesture And Motion Signal format)
  • IROCK (intelliRock Sensor Data File Format)
  • MFER (Medical waveform Format Encoding Rules)
  • REC (ATI Vision recorder file)
  • SCP-ECG (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
  • SIGIF (SIGnal Interchange Format)

[edit] Social Sciences

[edit] Spectra

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language)
  • EMD-DF64 (used for high frequency energy monitoring)
  • IES (IESNA LM-63 Photometric Data File)
  • Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb)

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