International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume G
Definition and exchange of crystallographic data
Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 2.4, pp. 44-52
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000730

Chapter 2.4. Specification of the Molecular Information File (MIF)

F. H. Allen,a* J. M. Barnard,b A. P. F. Cookb and S. R. Hallc

a Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ, England,bBCI Ltd, 46 Uppergate Road, Stannington, Sheffield S6 6BX, England, and cSchool of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Correspondence e-mail:  allen@ccdc.cam.ac.uk

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