MAT

File Format
Name	MAT
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Scientific Data formats MAT
Extension(s)	.mat

Overview

A binary format used by numerical computing environment Matlab to store matrices, structs, scalars and strings. Also supported by Mathematica.

Scientific computing packages NumPy and SciPy enable support for MAT-files in Python.

References

• MAT-File Format here
• Writing Custom Applications to Read and Write MAT-Files here