Scientific Data formats
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General
- cdf (Common Data Format)
- EAS3 (binary file format for structured data)
- hdf (Hierarchical Data Format, from NASA)
- NetCDF (Network Common Data Format)
- SDXF (Structured Data Exchange Format)
- Silo (a storage format for visualization developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)* XDF (eXtensible Data Format)
- 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)
- Simple Data format-DPT A new format from the Data Protocols Team for publishing and sharing data
- Standard Delay Format A standard data structure for timing data
- Structure Data File A file format for a chemical table file
- XSIL (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language)
Astronomical and Space
- FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
- PDS/ODL (Planetary Data System)
- VOTable (IVOA standard table format)
- SDF (Starlink Data Format) and NDF (Starlink's Extensible N-Dimensional Data Format).
Biological
- AB1 (Chromatogram files used by DNA sequencing instruments from Applied Biosystems)
- ABCD (Access to Biological Collection Data)
- ACE (Sequence assembly format)
- ABCDDNA (Access to Biological Collection Data DNA extension)
- Affymetrix Raw Intensity Format
- ARLEQUIN Project Format
- Axt Alignment Format
- BAM (Binary compressed SAM format)
- BED (Browser extensible display format describing genes and other features of DNA sequences)
- BEDgraph
- Big Browser Extensible Data Format
- Big Wiggle Format
- Binary Alignement Map Format
- Binary Probe Map Format
- Binary sequence information Format
- Biological Pathway eXchange
- BLAT alignment Format
- BRIX generated O Format
- CAF (Common Assembly Format for sequence assembly)
- CellML
- CHADO XML interchange Format
- Chain Format for pairwise alignment
- CHARMM Card File Format
- CLUSTAL-W Alignment Format
- CLUSTAL-W Dendrogram Guide File Format
- Clustered Data Table Format
- DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
- EMBL (Flatfile format used by the EMBL for nucleotide and peptide sequences)
- FASTA and FASTQ (File format for sequence data, FASTQ with quality).
- GelML
- GenBank (Flatfile format used by NCBI for nucleotide and peptide sequences)
- GFF (General feature format for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences)
- GTF (Gene transfer format holds information about gene structure)
- MITAB
- mzData (deprecated)
- mzIdentML
- mzML
- mzQuantML
- NEXUS (Encodes mixed information about genetic sequence data in a block structured format)
- PDB (Structures of biomolecules deposited in Protein Data Bank)
- PHD (Output from the basecalling software Phred)
- PSI-MI XML
- PSI-PAR
- SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map format)
- SCF (Staden chromatogram files used to store data from DNA sequencing)
- SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language used to store biochemical network computational models)
- spML
- Stockholm (Representing multiple sequence alignments)
- Swiss-Prot (Flatfile format used for protein sequences from the Swiss-Prot database)
- TraML
- VCF (Variant Call 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
- CCP4 (X-ray crystallography voxels (electron density))
- 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)
- PDB (Protein Data Bank)
- SMILES (Simplified molecular input line entry specification, .smi)
- SPC (spectroscopic data)
- Structure Data File (SDF)
Chemical data may be distinguished in various ways, including Chemical MIME types.
Ecological
- Darwin Core (Standard for sharing information about biological diversity)
- EML (Ecological Metadata Language)
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)
- shp and shx (ESRI Shaepfile must have components; other optional components as well, see entry)
- SID (MrSID- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database)
- TAB (MapInfo dataset format, must have component)
Mathematical
- graph6, sparse6 (ASCII encoding of Adjacency matrices (.g6, .s6))
- M (Mathematica package file)
- MAT (MATLAB matrix data format)
- MathML
- WP2 WinPlot
Medical Imaging
- AFNI (data, meta-data (.BRIK,.HEAD))
- MGH (uncompressed)
- MGZ (zip-compressed)
- Analyze data, meta-data (.img,.hdr)
- DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (.dcm))
- MINC (Medical Imaging NetCDF format; since version 2.0, based on HDF5 (.mnc))
- OME-TIFF (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
- OME-XML (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
- OST (Open Spatio-Temporal) (extensible, open alternative for microscope images)
- nii (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative (NIfTI) single-file (combined data and meta-data))
- gii (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, single-file (combined data and meta-data) style)
- .img,.hdr (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, dual-file (separate data and meta-data, respectively) style)
- SDM (Signed Differential Mapping- brain maps(.sdm))
Oceanographic, Atmospheric and Meteorological
- GRIB (Grid in Binary)
- BUFR (Binary Universal Format Representation)
- IOAPI (netCDF augmented with metadata from the I/O API)
- PP (UK Met Office format for weather model data)
Physics
- CGNS (Computational Fluid Dynamics General Notation System)
- NeXuS (Common data format for neutron, x-ray and muon science)
- QCDml (Lattice QCD gauge configuration markup language)
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)
- GDF (General data formats for biomedical signals)
- 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)
- SEG Y (Reflection seismology data format)
- SIGIF (SIGnal Interchange Format)
