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\subsection{Loading the data}  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.  We encourage adopting the \href{http://photon-hdf5.readthedocs.org/}{Photon-HDF5} as a fast and space efficient  format because it that  assure long-term accessibility to the data, data and  ease data sharing between different programs, while at the same time being a fast and space efficient format. programs.  All the FRETBursts example data files are in Photon-HDF5. Photon-HDF5 and can be opened with standard viewers such as \href{HDFView}{http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/java/hdfview/}.  An additional file-set data file  can be found here[multi-spot paper data files]. The \href{http://fretbursts.readthedocs.org/en/latest/loader.html}{\texttt{loader} module}  contains all the functions to load the different file formats. In particular, to load a Photon-HDF5 file use: