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Chapter 2.3. Specification of the Crystallographic Binary Format

Contents

  • 2.3. Specification of the Crystallographic Binary Format  (pp. 1-12) | html | pdf | chapter contents |
    Herbert J. Bernstein and Andrew P. Hammersley
    • 2.3.1. Introduction  (p. 1) | html | pdf |
    • 2.3.2. CBF and imgCIF  (pp. 1-3) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.2.1. A simple example  (pp. 2-3) | html | pdf |
    • 2.3.3. Overview of the format  (pp. 3-7) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.1. Details of the magic number  (p. 4) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.2. Details of the header section  (pp. 4-5) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.3. Details of binary sections  (pp. 5-6) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.3.4. Format of CBF binary sections  (pp. 6-7) | html | pdf |
    • 2.3.4. Compression schemes  (pp. 7-10) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.1. Canonical-code compression  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.2. CCP4-style compression  (pp. 7-8) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.3. Byte offset compression  (pp. 9-10) | html | pdf |
      • 2.3.4.4. Nibble-offset compression  (p. 10) | html | pdf |
    • 2.3.5. A complex example  (pp. 10-11) | html | pdf |
    • 2.3.6. imgCIF encodings  (pp. 10-11) | html | pdf |
    • 2.3.7. Concluding remarks  (pp. 11-12) | html | pdf |
    • References | html | pdf |
    • Tables
      • Table 2.3.3.1. The four-octet marker for the start of raw binary data  (p. 6) | html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.3.2. Deprecated simple binary string headers – use of MIME headers is recommended  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.1. CBF and imgCIF binary string compression schemes  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.2. The canonical compressed data  (p. 7) | html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.3. Packed compression encoding  (p. 8) | html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.4. The four-octet marker for start of raw binary data  (p. 8) | html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.5. Mode-setting octet for nibble-offset compression  (p. 10) | html | pdf |
      • Table 2.3.4.6. Mode-switching offsets in a nibble-offset-compression data stream  (p. 10) | html | pdf |