New in 9.0: Data Manipulation
Building on Mathematica's extensive data manipulation capabilities, Mathematica 9 adds a wide range of new import and export features.
New Import & Export Formats
"AgilentMicroarray" — biological microarray data (.txt)
"FASTQ" — molecular biology format (.fastq, .fq)
"FCS" — format for storing flow cytometry data (.fcs, .lmd)
"HIN" — HyperChem molecular data format (.hin)
"ICC" — color profile format (.icc, .icm)
"ICNS" — Macintosh icon package format (.icns)
"JCAMP-DX" — chemical spectroscopy format (.jdx, .dx, .jcm)
"OpenEXR" — theatrical film raster image format (.exr)
"SFF" — flowgram format for DNA sequences (.sff)
Updated Import & Export Formats
"CUR" — now supported by Export
"FITS" — import of binary tables, export of attributes
"HTML" — supports embedding of CDF
"ICO" — now supported by Export
"JPEG" — enhanced Exif and color profile support
"MIDI" — now supported by Import
"NB" — added support for cell style-based elements
"PBM" — improved support for various data formats
"PGM" — improved support for various data formats
"PNG" — added support for color profiles
"PNM" — improved support for various data formats
"TIFF" — added support for 3D images and color profiles
New in Date & Time »
DateRange — generate a list of dates
DatePlus — add or subtract days, weeks, etc. in a date list or string
DayRange — generate a list of days
DayPlus — add or subtract days
LeapYearQ — determine if a date is in a leap year
DayMatchQ — determine the day type
BusinessDayQ — determine if a day is a business day
DateDifference ▪ DayRound ▪ DayCount ▪ CalendarData
New in Image Processing & Analysis »
Image3D — create a 3D image from an array of data or a list of images
Image3DSlices — slice through a 3D image in each dimension
ImageFileApply, ImageFileFilter, ImageFileScan — out-of-core image processing
ImageMeasurements — return specified properties of an image
ImageDistance — compute various difference measures between two images
ImageValuePositions, PixelValuePositions — positions of the specified pixel value
ReplaceImageValue ▪ ReplacePixelValue ▪ ColorReplace
ColorProfileData — representation for general color spaces
DominantColors — find a list of dominant colors
HistogramTransform, HistogramTransformInterpolation — equalize levels
GradientOrientationFilter ▪ GaborFilter
NonlocalMeansFilter ▪ FourierDCTFilter
FindFaces — find human faces in an image
ImageCorners ▪ ImageFeatureTrack
GeodesicClosing ▪ GeodesicOpening
ImagePeriodogram — squared magnitude of the image Fourier transform
New in Signal Processing »
RecurrenceFilter — compute the response of an IIR filter
LowpassFilter ▪ HighpassFilter ▪ BandpassFilter ▪ BandstopFilter ▪ ...
LeastSquaresFilterKernel ▪ FrequencySamplingFilterKernel ▪ EquirippleFilterKernel
ButterworthFilterModel ▪ EllipticFilterModel ▪ Chebyshev1FilterModel ▪ ...
TransferFunctionTransform — convert between different types of analog filters
KaiserWindow ▪ DirichletWindow ▪ HannWindow ▪ HammingWindow ▪ ...
ListZTransform ▪ ListFourierSequenceTransform ▪ ...
FourierMatrix ▪ FourierDCTMatrix ▪ FourierDSTMatrix ▪ HadamardMatrix