CIF and imgCIF / CBF LINKS

IUCr home page.

CIF home page. Links to other CIF pages.

imgCIF / CIF Home Page.

The format continues to be developed from e-mail discussions held by the imgCIF group. A list server is run by John Skinner and Bob Sweet at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. To subscribe to the group send an e-mail to listproc@bnl.gov with the body containing:

subscribe imgCIF-l name@address

where name@address is replaced by your user name and address.

A message should be automatically returned explaining use of the server. Having subscribed, messages may be send to imgcif-l@bnl.gov.

Information on CIFs and the COMCIFS committe may be found at http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/home.html

The original paper describing the CIF format is:

1. S R Hall, F H Allen, and I D Brown, "The Crystallographic Information File (CIF): a New Standard Archive File for Crystallography", Acta Cryst., A47, 655-685 (1991)

mmCIF (macromolecular Crystallographic Information File) is an extension of the original CIF concept to support the added complexity of very large macromolecular structures.

For information on mmCIF see:

     Methods in Enzymology

     Editors: Charles W. Carter and Robert M. Sweet,

     Macromolecular Crystallography, Part B
        
     The Macromolecular Crystallographic Information File 
     (mmCIF),

     Authors: Philip E. Bourne and Helen M. Berman and 
             Brian McMahon and Keith D. Watenpaugh and 
             John Westbrook and  Paula M. D. Fitzgerald


     Publisher: Academic Press,

     Volume 277, 1997

For the mmCIF home page click here.

PowderCIF is an extension to cover items particular to powder diffraction data. Information on the PowderCIF dictionary can be found at http://www.iucr.org/cif/pd/index.html.

CIF is copyrighted by the IUCr to protect the usage of the format for the whole community whilst allowing free usage. See the IUCr official statement of policy on the use of CIF/STAR.