Everything about File format

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: File formatA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: OME-Zarr: a cloud-optimized bioimaging file format with international community supportInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Canadian MARC communication formatThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: PopLDdecay: a fast and effective tool for linkage disequilibrium decay analysis based on variant call format filesCited 1,879 times
5. Go sideways: Interchange File FormatA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Filename extensionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• PopLDdecay: a fast and effective tool for linkage disequilibrium decay analysis based on variant call format files

  Chi Zhang, Shan-Shan Dong, Jun-Yang Xu · 2018 · Bioinformatics · 1,879 citations

• The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants

  Peter J. A. Cock, Christopher J. Fields, Naohisa Goto · 2009 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,610 citations

• A uniform proteomics MS/MS analysis platform utilizing open XML file formats

  Andrew Keller, Jimmy Eng, Ning Zhang · 2005 · Molecular Systems Biology · 605 citations

• LDBlockShow: a fast and convenient tool for visualizing linkage disequilibrium and haplotype blocks based on variant call format files

  Shan-Shan Dong, Wei-Ming He, Jing-Jing Ji · 2020 · Briefings in Bioinformatics · 572 citations

• Description of several chemical structure file formats used by computer programs developed at Molecular Design Limited

  Arthur Dalby, James G. Nourse, W. Douglas Hounshell · 1992 · Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences · 564 citations

• The crystallographic information file (CIF): a new standard archive file for crystallography

  S. R. Hall, F. H. Allen, I. D. Brown · 1991 · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography · 480 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• OME-Zarr: a cloud-optimized bioimaging file format with international community support

  Josh Moore, Daniela Basurto-Lozada, Sébastien Besson · 2023 · Histochemistry and Cell Biology · 131 citations

• Pairs and Pairix: a file format and a tool for efficient storage and retrieval for Hi-C read pairs

  Soohyun Lee, Clara R Bakker, Carl Vitzthum · 2022 · Bioinformatics · 58 citations

• CRAM 3.1: advances in the CRAM file format

  James K Bonfield · 2022 · Bioinformatics · 41 citations

• GBZ file format for pangenome graphs

  Jouni Sirén, Benedict Paten · 2022 · Bioinformatics · 39 citations

• TREXIO: A file format and library for quantum chemistry

  Evgeny Posenitskiy, Vijay Gopal Chilkuri, Abdallah Ammar · 2023 · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 31 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Canadian MARC communication formatCanadian MARC Office. · 1973
• The digital negativeJeff Schewe · 2012
• Adobe Acrobat X Pdf BibleTed Padova · 2011
• Developing With PdfLeonard Rosenthol · 2013
• PDF HacksSid Steward · 2004
• Camera Raw with Photoshop for dummiesKevin L. Moss · 2006
• 📕Characteristics of subject authority records in the machine-readable Library of Congress subject headingsKaren Markey · 1988
• Encyclopedia of graphics file formatsJames D. Murray · 1994

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