Scientific & Medical Data Formats
The Wolfram Language can import from a variety of file formats commonly used in physics, astronomy, meteorology, chemistry, biology, medicine, and physiology.
General Formats
"HDF", "HDF5" — NCSA hierarchical data format (.hdf, .h5)
"NASACDF" — NASA common data format (.cdf)
"NetCDF" — Unidata scientific data format (.nc)
Astronomical Data Formats
"FITS" — FITS astronomical data and image format (.fit)
"SP3" — GPS and other satellite orbits (.sp3)
Medical Imaging
"DICOM" — DICOM annotated medical images (.dcm, .dic)
"DICOMDIR" — directory of DICOM files (DICOMDIR)
"BioImageFormat" — over 160 microscopy image file formats (.nii, .img, .lif, .ome.tiff, ...)
Medical and Physiological Data Formats
"Affymetrix" — Affymetrix data format (.cdf, .cel, .chp, .gin, .psi)
"BDF" — BioSemi data format (.bdf)
"EDF" — European data format (.edf)
Chemical & Biomolecular Data »
"MOL" ▪ "SDF" ▪ "SMILES" ▪ "PDB" ▪ "GenBank" ▪ "FASTA" ▪ ...
Seismographic Data
"NDK" — NDK seismographic data format (.ndk)
Weather Data
"GRIB" — GRIB scientific data format (.grb, .grib)
Common Elements
"Data" — array of numbers or strings