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Export

Exports the data of interest to a a target path.

Connecting the export logic to any IO enables the user to export the data in multiple different formats and to different locations.

Here, a very specific example should be given/described. In the future, this can be supported by screenshots etc.. For the moment, give an example easy enough for the user to understand, but specific enough to elaborate why a given parameter is a good set for this very situation.

Different file types of the dataset to be exported can be chosen.

File Type Description
Autodetect In case of a given data format (e.g. .mrc or .img) the “autodetect” option can be activated. In any other case, the file type needs to be set.
Header File To save storage space this option can be used if only the imagic (.hed) file but not the data file (.img) is required.
csv The .csv format is used to store tabular data into plain text (e.g. Excel).
imagic The file format was developed based on image science convention. Two files are generated, a header (.hed) and an image (.img) file. In the header file several image specifications are stored. Two files are generated, a header (.hed) and an image (.img) file. In the header file an several image specifications are stored
jpg
mrc The mrc format is based on the map format used in the CCP4 suite for macromolecular crystallography.Two options for MRC-Compatibility may be defined: imagic (1) or xmipp3.1 (2), where parameters are stored according to the mentioned software conventions. For using in RELION rename a .mrc stack into .mrcs.
png
star The STAR (Self-defining Text Archiving and Retrival) format is an alternative to the XML format to store different kinds of meta data in a easy-to-read fashion. RELION used the star format for all kind of meta data (model.star; optimiser.star; sampling.star and data.star). Notepad++ can be used to read .star-files.
tif

The Export logic can be used to export all kinds of different file formats out of the cow. Datasets can be exported independently from the status of the progress (final structure, intermediate results etc.). The location of the file can be chosen and is free for usage with different software.