Description
FORMATS CURRENTLY SUPPORTED:
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CCP4
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Crystallography community format
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DATA ONLY
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Raw images, no header available
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EM
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MPI für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
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FORMATTED
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ASCII formatted files
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IMAGIC
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Image Science
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MDPP
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NYU-MC, Ross Smith
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MRC
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MRC/LMB, Richard Henderson & Tony Crowther
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OFFSET
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Skip a specified number of (header) bytes
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PIC
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NIH Bethesda, Alasdair Steven & Benes Trus
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PIF
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Purdue Ariality, Tim Baker
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PostScript
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Adobe Postscript (export only)
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RAWIV
/ VOLUMETRIC
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The rawiv data format is used to represent3D volumetric data of scalar fields
defined on a regular grid
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SEMPER
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Synoptics, Owen Saxton |
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SHF
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GATAN
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SITUS
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The map format of Willy Wriggers docking program Situs
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SPIDER
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Albany, Joachim Frank
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SUPRIM
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J.P. Schroeter and P. Bretaudiere
Also used in PHOELIX
(B. Carragher, M. Whittaker & R. Milligan)
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TIFF
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(read: 8 & 16 bit, write: 8 bit)
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TVIPS
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Image formats used by the TVIPS (Tietz Video and Image Processing Systems)
company, Germany. (The two formats used are EM and TIFF with a specific tag)
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CORRECTION FOR BYTE SWAP:
Images from different workstations and operating systems can be
converted automatically, i.e.
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UNIX / Linux
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Mac OSX
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MS Windows
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CONVERSION OF SERIES OF IMAGES:
Stacks of image files can be converted in one step
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EASE OF USE:
The conversion program is started with a simple command line call.
Questions and options are prompted interactively.
Check the download page for a windows application of em2em (coming soon)
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INTERACTIVE HELP:
"Help" or "?" is a legitimate answer to every question asked by
the (IMAGIC) program. This option provides context sensitive help.
The program also suggest default answers
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