Standard Crystallographic File Structure

Brown, I. D. The standard crystallographic file structure. Acta Cryst. A39, 216-224 (1985). 

Brown, I. D. Standard crystallographic file structure — 84. Acta Cryst. A41, 399 (1983). 

Brown, I.D. Standard Crystallographic File Structure . Acta Crystallogr 1983, A39, 216-224. 

An alternative and much more flexible approach is represented hy the STAR file format [L48, 149, which can be used for building self-describing data files. Additionally, special dictionaries can be constructed, which specify more precisely the contents of the eorresponding data files. The two most widely used such dictionaries (and file formats) arc the CIF (Crystallographic Information File) file format [150] - the International Union of Crystallography s standard for representation of small molecules - and mmCIF [151], which is intended as a replacement for the PDB format for the representation of macromolecular structures,... 

This is a Crystallographic Information File, which records all information in a standard format acceptable by the majority of crystallographic programs, and which is required by the majority of technical journals for publication of the structure determination results. 

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