Scientific Data formats

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* [[Clustered Data Table Format]]
 
* [[Clustered Data Table Format]]
 
* [[Complete Genomics]]
 
* [[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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* [[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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* [[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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* [[MST]] ACD/ChemSketch v1 file format
 
* [[MST]] ACD/ChemSketch v1 file format
 
* [[Protein Data Bank]] (PDB)
 
* [[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)
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* [[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)
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* [[Life 1.05]]
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* [[Life 1.06]]
 
* [[MacWavelets]]
 
* [[MacWavelets]]
 
* Mathematica
 
* Mathematica
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* [[OPJ]] (Origin data format)
 
* [[OPJ]] (Origin data format)
 
* [[PDL]] (Perl Data Language)
 
* [[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]]
 
* [[Statistica]]
 
* [[Statistica]]
 
** [[CSS Software]] (Complete Statistical System)
 
** [[CSS Software]] (Complete Statistical System)
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* [[DM4]] (Gatan Digital Micrograph 4)
 
* [[DM4]] (Gatan Digital Micrograph 4)
 
* [[GATAN]]
 
* [[GATAN]]
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* [[Image Cytometry Experiment]] (ICE)
 
* [[Image Cytometry Standard]] (ICS)
 
* [[Image Cytometry Standard]] (ICS)
 
* [[KONTRON]]
 
* [[KONTRON]]
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* [[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)
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* [[Linguistic Annotation Framework]] (LAF; used by computational linguists to annotate language samples)
 
* [[M2k]] (MAXQDA)
 
* [[M2k]] (MAXQDA)
 
* [[NVivo]] ([[Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis]] package)
 
* [[NVivo]] ([[Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis]] package)
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== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
* [http://cameronneylon.net/blog/improving-on-access-to-research/ Improving on “Access to Research”]
 
* [http://cameronneylon.net/blog/improving-on-access-to-research/ Improving on “Access to Research”]
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* [[WikiBooks:Software Tools For Molecular Microscopy]]

Revision as of 09:33, 1 September 2020

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

Contents

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)
  • 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)
  • XSIL (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language)

Astronomical and Space

Biological

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)

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

Earth Sciences

Ecological

Environmental

  • HYT (AquiferTest)

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)
  • HDFEOS, HD2, HD4 (Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System)
  • 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)

Mathematical

Microscopy

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)

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)

Physics

See subcategory Physics data

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)

Social Sciences

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