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General considerations in programming CIF applications
H. J. Bernstein. International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G, ch. 5.1, pp. 481-487  [ doi:10.1107/97809553602060000751 ]

Abstract

This chapter is an introduction for programmers new to CIF to ways of creating new `CIF-aware' applications and of adapting existing applications to make them CIF-aware. We review general considerations in programming CIF-aware applications, ranging from leaving an application CIF-unaware and relying on external filter utilities to do the job, through engineering an existing application to directly read and write CIFs, to writing a new CIF-aware application from scratch.


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International Tables for Crystallography is the definitive resource and reference work for crystallography. The multi-volume series comprises articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials.