Single Cell RNA Seq data is often stored in Loom which is a HDF5 format. https:/...

acomjean on May 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular d...

Single Cell RNA Seq data is often stored in Loom which is a HDF5 format.

Its a little weird at first but its a great format and has libraries in a lot of major languages. It stores a sparse matrix which cuts the size down a lot.

https://linnarssonlab.org/loompy/format/index.html