General input and output structures in the CIF# Observations Observation data to provide How to specifiy what to do in the yml file Observation information computed by pyCIF Observation data structure in pyCIF Updating monitors from other versions of pyCIF Control vectors pickle binary file NetCDF file Dumping and loading control vectors Observation vectors NetCDF format Other input data Files for checks 1. pipe_inputs.txt 2. transform_description.txt 3. transform_pipe.txt