# MRC (Medical Research Council)

Extensions: .mrc, .st, .ali, .map, .rec, .mrcs

Developers:

- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

- CCP-EM

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions:

Reader: MRCReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

Sample Datasets:

- golgi.mrc

We currently have:

- specification documents for MRC2000 and MRC2014

- an IMOD-specific MRC specification document (in TXT)

- public sample images

- a few MRC datasets

Ratings

Pixels:

Metadata:

Openness:

Presence:

Utility:

Additional Information

Commercial applications that support MRC include:

- Bitplane Imaris

Bio-Formats provides support for the base MRC2000/MRC2014 specifications. Limited support is provided for vendor-specific extended headers, as described in the MRC2014 specification. IMOD extended metadata is perhaps the best-supported variant.

See also

MRC on Wikipedia