Exploratory Data Analysis

Overview

Inspect scientific files before downstream analysis. The bundled script recognizes more than 100 simple and compound suffixes and writes a bounded Markdown report. It performs content-level analysis only for the common formats listed below; other recognized formats receive file metadata and a reference-catalog entry.

The six reference files contain 239 format entries. Some entries describe the same suffix in different domain contexts, so this is not a count of unique formats or implemented parsers.

Bundled content parsers:

• NumPy arrays (.npy, .npz), CSV/TSV samples, JSON, and HDF5
• FASTA and FASTQ, including common gzip-compressed suffixes
• TIFF/OME-TIFF, PNG, and JPEG raster images
• Reference-only metadata for every other recognized suffix
• Representative streaming analyzers for PDB/SDF/SMILES, MGF/mzML/mzXML, and mzTab families; proprietary binary formats remain reference-only unless their project environment supplies a reader.

When to Use This Skill