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The evolution of MINC

MINC 2 has been designed to address a few specific problems that had been identified in MINC 1. Since most of these problems were inherent in the MINC 1 file format, it was clear that the design of MINC 2 would require a major revision of the file format. The team developing MINC 2 chose to replace NetCDF with the HDF5 library to form the basis of the MINC 2 format. HDF5 provides a number of advanced features which are not available in NetCDF.

For more information on the specifics of the MINC 2 file format, see the appropriate document (insert reference here).


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Robert VINCENT 2004-05-28