Building on Mathematica's extensive data manipulation capabilities, Mathematica 9 adds a wide range of new import and export features.

New Import & Export Formats

"AgilentMicroarray" — biological microarray data (.txt)

"FASTQ" — molecular biology format (.fastq, .fq)

"FCS" — format for storing flow cytometry data (.fcs, .lmd)

"HIN" — HyperChem molecular data format (.hin)

"ICC" — color profile format (.icc, .icm)

"ICNS" — Macintosh icon package format (.icns)

"JCAMP-DX" — chemical spectroscopy format (.jdx, .dx, .jcm)

"OpenEXR" — theatrical film raster image format (.exr)

"SFF" — flowgram format for DNA sequences (.sff)

Updated Import & Export Formats

"CUR" — now supported by Export

"FITS" — import of binary tables, export of attributes

"HTML" — supports embedding of CDF

"ICO" — now supported by Export

"JPEG" — enhanced Exif and color profile support

"MIDI" — now supported by Import

"NB" — added support for cell style-based elements

"PBM" — improved support for various data formats

"PGM" — improved support for various data formats

"PNG" — added support for color profiles

"PNM" — improved support for various data formats

"TIFF" — added support for 3D images and color profiles

New in Date & Time »

DateRange — generate a list of dates

DatePlus — add or subtract days, weeks, etc. in a date list or string

DayRange — generate a list of days

DayPlus — add or subtract days

LeapYearQ — determine if a date is in a leap year

DayMatchQ — determine the day type

BusinessDayQ — determine if a day is a business day

DateDifference  ▪  DayRound  ▪  DayCount  ▪  CalendarData

New in Image Processing & Analysis »

Image3D — create a 3D image from an array of data or a list of images

Image3DSlices — slice through a 3D image in each dimension

ImageFileApply, ImageFileFilter, ImageFileScan — out-of-core image processing

ImageMeasurements — return specified properties of an image

ImageDistance — compute various difference measures between two images

ImageValuePositions, PixelValuePositions — positions of the specified pixel value

ReplaceImageValue  ▪  ReplacePixelValue  ▪  ColorReplace

ColorProfileData — representation for general color spaces

DominantColors — find a list of dominant colors

HistogramTransform, HistogramTransformInterpolation — equalize levels

GradientOrientationFilter  ▪  GaborFilter

NonlocalMeansFilter  ▪  FourierDCTFilter

FindFaces — find human faces in an image

ImageCorners  ▪  ImageFeatureTrack

GeodesicClosing  ▪  GeodesicOpening

ImagePeriodogram — squared magnitude of the image Fourier transform

New in Signal Processing »

RecurrenceFilter — compute the response of an IIR filter

LowpassFilter  ▪  HighpassFilter  ▪  BandpassFilter  ▪  BandstopFilter  ▪  ...

LeastSquaresFilterKernel  ▪  FrequencySamplingFilterKernel  ▪  EquirippleFilterKernel

ButterworthFilterModel  ▪  EllipticFilterModel  ▪  Chebyshev1FilterModel  ▪  ...

TransferFunctionTransform — convert between different types of analog filters

KaiserWindow  ▪  DirichletWindow  ▪  HannWindow  ▪  HammingWindow  ▪  ...

ListZTransform  ▪  ListFourierSequenceTransform  ▪  ...

FourierMatrix  ▪  FourierDCTMatrix  ▪  FourierDSTMatrix  ▪  HadamardMatrix

Spectrogram  ▪  Periodogram  ▪  ImagePeriodogram  ▪  ...

Upsample  ▪  Downsample