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Scientific file formats in pure Go (CGO=0): HDF5, MAT, NetCDF, FITS, npy, Matrix Market, WAV and FLAC. Planned, wave 2: no library exists yet.
go-sciio is the organisation the go-scikit parity plan
names for what MATLAB's file functions and Mathematica's Import read and
write. Nothing is released and no code is written: this page, the website and
the documentation say what the organisation will cover and how each part will be
checked. The state of every item is in
STATUS.md.
| Planned package | Format | Validated against |
|---|---|---|
h5 |
HDF5 (File Format Specification 3.0), reader and writer | h5py, h5dump, the HDF Group's example files |
mat |
MAT-files v4, v5, v7 and v7.3 (on h5) |
scipy.io, h5py for v7.3 |
netcdf |
NetCDF classic (CDF-1, 2, 5) and NetCDF-4 (on h5) |
netcdf-c ncdump, the netcdf-c test files |
fits |
FITS 4.0: images, binary tables, compressed images | astropy.io.fits, NASA's FITS samples |
npy |
NumPy .npy and .npz |
NumPy |
mtx |
Matrix Market, coordinate and array | scipy.io.mmread |
wav |
WAV (PCM and float) | scipy.io.wavfile |
flac |
FLAC (RFC 9639), decoding | the FLAC test files of the IETF working group |
The package names are provisional. The plan places go-sciio in wave 2 (item 9):
HDF5 first, then MAT v7.3 on it, then NetCDF, FITS and npy. Whether h5 wraps an
audited existing package or is written here is still open in the roadmap's
bibliography. go-sparse's wave 1 already lists Matrix Market I/O, so the line
between its work and mtx is yet to be drawn.
| Repo | What it is |
|---|---|
| docs | the documentation site (Hugo + Hextra), served at /docs/ |
| go-sciio.github.io | the landing page (Hugo) |
| brand | logo, icons and social images |
No library repository exists yet: each is created when its first pull request is ready.