Journal article
The Crystallographic Information File (CIF)
Abstract
The Crystallographic Information File (CIF), owned by the International Union of Crystallography, is a file structure based on tag-value ASCII pairs with tags defined in machine-readable dictionaries. The crystallographic community publishes and archives large quantities of numeric information generated by crystal structure determinations, and CIF's acceptance was assured by its adoption as the submission format for Acta Crystallographica and …
Authors
Brown ID; McMahon B
Journal
Data Science Journal, Vol. 5, ,
Publisher
Ubiquity Press
Publication Date
2006
DOI
10.2481/dsj.5.174
ISSN
1683-1470