Scientific Data (data Exchange)
- FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) – standard data format for astronomy (.fits)
- Silo – a storage format for visualization developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- SPC – spectroscopic data
- EAS3 – binary file format for structured data
- OST (Open Spatio-Temporal) – extensible, mainly images with related data, or just pure data; meant as an open alternative for microscope images
- CCP4 – X-ray crystallography voxels (electron density)
- MRC – voxels in cryo-electron microscopy
- HITRAN - spectroscopic data with one optical/infrared transition per line in the ASCII file (.hit)
- Simple Data Format (SDF) - a platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large, multi-dimensional arrays.
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