| Walt Mankowski on 26 Mar 2009 06:38:02 -0700 |
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:56:09AM -0400, Paul L. Snyder wrote: > What about CSV isn't working for you? > > How are you going to be using the data? > > What languages will you be using it from? > > How much data are you talking about? Most science grad students I know end up using CSV files. Those are mostly physics/astronomy students, who tend to be relatively computer-savvy, and CS students, who tend to be a little less savvy but can usually handle a text file. :) When I was doing bioinformatics work a few years ago, they all used excel spreadsheets. > Lately I've been using Python for this sort of thing. It's quite > convenient to use one script to read you data into Python data structures, > then use the pickle module to save them out. Other scripts can then work > directly with the pickled data. I've heard a lot of good things about SciPy, but I haven't used it myself and don't know if it would be useful for what you're doing. Perl has a large and well-maintained module called bioperl that may or may not be of use to you. I used SQLite for a recent project and it worked quite well. As Paul says, it all depends on what your data looks like, what languages you know, how many people need to use it, and so on. Walt Attachment:
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