DXchange

DXchange provides an interface with TomoPy [Gursoy:14b] and raw tomographic data collected at different synchrotron facilities including the Data Exchange file format (DXfile) [DeCarlo:14a], currently in use at the Advanced Photon Source beamline 2-BM and 32-ID, at the Swiss Light Source Tomcat beamline and at the Elettra SYRMEP beamline [Elettra:01].

Warning

DXchange will drop support for Python 2 before 1 January 2020. For more information, visit https://python3statement.org/.

Features

  • Scientific Data Exchange file format.
  • Readers for tomographic data files collected at different facilities.
  • Writers for different file formats.

Highlights

  • Based on Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5).
  • Focuses on technique rather than instrument descriptions.
  • Provenance tracking for understanding analysis steps and results.
  • Ease of readability.