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\subsection{Loading the data}  \label{sec:dataload}  Currently, FRETBursts supports loading data from a few file formats: SM files (a binary format saved by a common LabVIEW program used in smFRET setups),   SPC (a binary format used by TCSPC Becker \& Hickl cards) and   \href{http://photon-hdf5.readthedocs.org/}{Photon-HDF5} an open binary   format single-molecule data based on HDF5. Support for additional file formats,  such as the PicoQuant file formats, formats  can be added depending on user requests. We encourage adopting \href{http://photon-hdf5.readthedocs.org/}{Photon-HDF5}  as \href{http://photon-hdf5.readthedocs.org/}{Photon-HDF5},  a format specifically designed for freely-diffusing smFRET and other timestamp-based data.   Photon-HDF5 is  a fast self-documented  andspace  efficient format that assure allows saving both the raw data and the measurement-specific meta-data  (setup and sample information, authors, provenance etc...).  Photon-HDF5 assures  long-term accessibility to of  the data and aims to  ease data sharing between among  different programs. software and research groups.  All the FRETBursts exemplary data files are saved in Photon-HDF5 and can be opened with standard viewers such as \href{http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/java/hdfview/}{HDFView}. A additional Additional  data files can be found here[multi-spot paper data files]. The \href{http://fretbursts.readthedocs.org/en/latest/loader.html}{\texttt{loader} module}  contains functions to load the different file formats.