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Chapter 2.1. An overview of the Crystallographic Information Framework

Contents

  • 2.1. An overview of the Crystallographic Information Framework  (pp. 1-8) | html | pdf | chapter contents |
    James R. Hester and Brian McMahon
    • 2.1.1. Executive summary  (pp. 1-2) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.1.1. Writing CIF files  (p. 1) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.1.2. Reading CIF files  (p. 1) | html | pdf |
        • 2.1.1.2.1. Using dictionaries in software  (pp. 1-2) | html | pdf |
    • 2.1.2. Introduction  (p. 2) | html | pdf |
    • 2.1.3. The CIF format  (pp. 2-8) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.3.1. CIF 1.1 and CIF 2.0  (pp. 2-4) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.3.2. The Crystallographic Binary File and imgCIF  (p. 4) | html | pdf |
    • 2.1.4. Dictionary definitions  (pp. 4-6) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.4.1. The evolution of DDL  (pp. 4-5) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.4.2. The form of a data name  (pp. 5-6) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.4.3. Relations between data names  (p. 6) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.4.4. The CIF ontology  (p. 6) | html | pdf |
    • 2.1.5. Administration of the standard  (pp. 6-7) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.5.1. Primary web sites  (pp. 6-7) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.5.2. Development web sites and community interactions  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
    • 2.1.6. Software resources  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.6.1. Formal grammars  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
      • 2.1.6.2. Reference implementation  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
    • References | html | pdf |
    • Figures
      • Fig. 2.1.3.1. A simple example of a file fragment conforming to the CIF syntax rules  (p. 2) | html | pdf |
      • Fig. 2.1.3.2. A comparison of CIF1.1 and CIF2.0 formats  (p. 3) | html | pdf |
      • Fig. 2.1.3.3. Extract from an example CBF data set demonstrating how raw binary data are associated with descriptive metadata using the ASCII character set  (p. 4) | html | pdf |
      • Fig. 2.1.4.1. Example definition of a data name identifying a physical quantity  (p. 4) | html | pdf |
      • Fig. 2.1.4.2. Examples of a data definition expressed in (a) DDL1, (b) DDL2 and (c) DDLm formalisms  (p. 5) | html | pdf |
    • Tables
      • Table 2.1.4.1. CIF dictionaries maintained by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) and Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB)  (p. 7) | html | pdf |