From 2514e7edee8cd66f6bc2e966082168b9663f7450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Blaise Thompson <blaise@untzag.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 16:52:28 -0500
Subject: 2018-05-09 16:52

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 software/chapter.tex | 7 ++++++-
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Quoting Soergel:
   More likely, it systematically alters every data point, or occurs in some downstream aggregate
   step with effectively global consequences.  %
   In general, software errors produce outcomes that are inaccurate, not merely imprecise.  %
- 
+
 \end{dquote}
 
 On a more positive note, better software development practices may be ``low-hanging-fruit'' that
@@ -448,6 +448,11 @@ It can support arbitrary datatypes and is optimized to quickly process large and
 datasets.  %
 In Python, HDF5 is supported primarily through the h5py package. \cite{h5py}  %
 
+Many scientific disciplines have built custom file formats on top of the HDF5 standard.  %
+These include biological imaging \cite{DoughertyMatthewT2009a}, scanning transmission X-ray
+microscopy \cite{WattsBenjamin2016a}, scalable nucleotide tallies \cite{PylPaulTheodor2014a}, and
+even ultrasonic concrete data \cite{PrinceLuke2017a}.
+
 \section{Scientific Python}  % --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 SciPy is a collection of \emph{``open-source software for mathematics, science, and egnineering.''}
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