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Chapter 2.3. Specification of the Crystallographic Binary Format

Contents

  • Specification of the Crystallographic Binary Format | html | pdf | chapter contents |
    Herbert J. Bernstein and Andrew P. Hammersley
    • 2.3.1. Introduction| html | pdf |
    • 2.3.2. CBF and imgCIF| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.2.1. A simple example| html | pdf |
    • 2.3.3. Overview of the format| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.1. Details of the magic number| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.2. Details of the header section| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.3. Details of binary sections| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.4. Format of CBF binary sections| html | pdf |
    • 2.3.4. Compression schemes| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.1. Canonical-code compression| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.2. CCP4-style compression| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.3. Byte offset compression| html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.4. Nibble-offset compression| html | pdf |
    • 2.3.5. A complex example| html | pdf |
    • 2.3.6. imgCIF encodings| html | pdf |
    • 2.3.7. Concluding remarks| html | pdf |
    • References | html | pdf |
    • Tables
      • Table 2.3.3.1. The four-octet marker for the start of raw binary data| html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.3.2. Deprecated simple binary string headers – use of MIME headers is recommended| html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.1. CBF and imgCIF binary string compression schemes| html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.2. The canonical compressed data| html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.3. Packed compression encoding| html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.4. The four-octet marker for start of raw binary data| html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.5. Mode-setting octet for nibble-offset compression| html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.6. Mode-switching offsets in a nibble-offset-compression data stream| html | pdf |