What is the RCF format?
RCF stands for Relieved Compress Format and represents the data the exact way it is residing on the server. In order to minimize disk space usage as well as computation time, it was decided after thorough tests that the originally supplied data is to be reprocessed and recompressed on-the-fly during the data loading process. Thus all chromatograms are being kept in the proprietary format which is called RCF. RCF is a combination of two simple computation algorithms: derivation and Huffman encoding, which yield a significant data compression while remaining simple and not requiring much computation power. Typically it takes much less time when the data is downloaded in RCF format due to the smaller size of the data. The data can then be converted into SCF format locally. We greatly encourage you to do this, since it relieves pressure on the server while also saving you some waiting time.
