The phrase "a parallel format" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a format that is similar or equivalent to another format, often in contexts like data presentation or document structuring.
Example: "The report was presented in a parallel format to ensure consistency with previous submissions."
Alternatives: "an equivalent format" or "a comparable format".
Each of the stories in this collection is presented in parallel format in a practical orthography.
A parallel column format was used, giving a cycle time of 34 min. Tandem MS was performed by monitoring precursor to product transitions under individually optimized conditions, typically from the most abundant [M+nH]n+ precursor ion to an ammonium ion.
Reductive amination is an efficient method that is readily adaptable to parallel format and, hence, we adapted this reaction to couple compound 2, synthesized in three steps (Scheme 1) starting from 1 according to the modified reported method, with twenty-one commercially available aldehydes.
The improved throughput from the massively parallel format of the new platforms (billions of bases in a single run) is ideal for revealing patterns of genetic variation among individuals by resequencing.
This volume includes 12 stories from languages of the American southwest presented in numbered parallel format.
* Probe sets/genes identified as the top 5 subgroup-discriminators in both analyses, RMA/RF and Ross et al. (parallel format).
Column chromatography was avoided at all intermediate stages, facilitating the application of the approach in parallel format.
In particular, bacterial sequencing has been advanced by the high throughput, parallel format of the 454 Sequencer [ 51], the first 'next-generation' technology to de novo sequence and assemble whole bacterial genomes including Mycoplasma genitalium in a single machine run [ 52].
My correspondent is absolutely right that the solution to a) is to publish in parallel formats — PDF for human readers, original manipulable electronic format for those who need to process, mark up, or otherwise work with the text or data in fluid ways.
