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Scientific File Formats

John Pellman edited this page Mar 18, 2020 · 14 revisions

Scientific File Formats

I'm using this page to organize discoveries / thoughts about scientific file formats / compression algorithms.

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HDF5

NIfTI

MRC

Chiefly used by Relion.

Compression

  • FPZip : "Think of fpzip as the floating-point analogue to PNG image compression and zfp as advanced JPEG for floating-point arrays."
  • mtscomp : If fpzip/zfp are PNG/JPEG analogues, mtscomp seems to be more of an MP3 / audio compression analogue.

Scientific-Computing

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