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\subsection{Loading the Data}  \label{sec:dataload}  While FRETBursts can load several data files formats,  we encourage users to adopt the recently introduced Photon-HDF5 file format~\cite{Ingargiola2016}. Photon-HDF5 is an HDF5-based, open format, specifically designed for freely-diffusing smFRET and other timestamp-based experiments.  Photon-HDF5 is a self-documented, platform- and language-independent binary format,  which supports compression and allows saving photon data (e.g. timestamps) and measurement-specific metadata (e.g. setup and sample information, authors, provenance, etc.).  Moreover, Photon-HDF5 is designed for long-term data preservation and aims to facilitate data sharing between different software and research groups.  All example data files provided with FRETBursts use the Photon-HDF5 format.         

\label{fig:altern_hist_double} \textbf{Alternation histograms for μs-ALEX and ns-ALEX measurements.} Histograms used for the selection/determination  of the alternation periods for two typical smFRET-ALEX experiments.  Distributions of photons detected by donor channel are in \textit{green}, and by acceptor channel in \textit{red}. The light \textit{green} and \textit{red} shaded areas indicate the donor and acceptor period definitions. (a) μs-ALEX alternation histogram, i.e. histogram of timestamps \textit{modulo} the alternation period for a smFRET measurement. (b) ns-ALEX TCSPC  nanotime histogram for a smFRET measurement. Both plots have been generated by the same plot function (\texttt{plot\_alternation\_hist()}). Additional information on these specific measurements can be found in the attached notebook (\href{http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/tritemio/fretbursts_paper/blob/master/notebooks/Figures\%20-\%20ALEX\%20histograms.ipynb}{link}).