Scientific & Medical Data Formats
Mathematica can import from a variety of file formats commonly used in physics, astronomy, meteorology, chemistry, biology, medicine and physiology.
"HDF",
"HDF5" — NCSA hierarchical data format (.hdf, .h5)
"CDF" — NASA common data format (.cdf)
"NetCDF" — Unidata scientific data format
"FITS" — FITS astronomical data and image format (.fit)
"DICOM" — DICOM annotated medical images (.dcm, .dic)
Medical and Physiological Data
"EDF" — European Data Format (.edf)
"XYZ" — XYZ molecule geometry file (.xyz)
"MOL" — MDL MOL format (.mol)
"FASTA" — bioinformatics sequence format (.fasta, .fa, .fsa, .mpfa)
"PDB" — Protein Data Bank format (.pdb)
"Data" — array of numbers or strings
"Graphics" — raster image
"Rules" — rules for all elements
"Elements" — all available elements
