File Specifications#
This section contains reference documentation for file specifications available publicly.
EDAX#
The file specifications for the edax file formats made available publicly available from EDAX:
Ripple (Lispix)#
Format description for the ripple file format.
MRC (CCP-EM)#
The MRC file format is a standard open file format for electron microscopy data and is defined by Cheng et al. The file format is described in detail following the link as well: MRC2014.
Additionally Direct Electron saves a couple of files along with the .mrc file. In general, the file naming
scheme is CurrentDate_MovieNumber_suffix_movie.mrc with the metadata file named CurrentDate_MovieNumber_suffix_info.txt.
and different external detectors or virtual images are saved as CurrentDate_MovieNumber_suffix_ext#_extName.mrc or
CurrentDate_MovieNumber_suffix_#_virtualName.mrc respectively. The suffix is optional and can be any
string or left empty. By default Virtual image 0 is the sum at each navigation point and is equivalent to the
navigation image.