Scientific File Formats

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

HDF5

• http://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/

NIfTI

• https://www.nitrc.org/docman/view.php/26/204/TheNIfTI1Format2004.pdf
• https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/Formats
• https://brainder.org/2012/09/23/the-nifti-file-format/
• https://brainder.org/2015/04/03/the-nifti-2-file-format/
• https://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1/documentation/hbm_nifti_2004.pdf
• https://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-2

MRC

Chiefly used by Relion.

• http://www.ccpem.ac.uk/mrc_format/mrc2014.php

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.