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'''CIF''' stands for Crystallographic Information File and also Crystallographic Information Framework. The format is promoted and standardised by the [http://www.iucr.org/ International Union of Crystallography]. See [http://www.iucr.org/resources/cif Documentation and Resources for Users and Developers of CIF Software].
  
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The [http://checkcif.iucr.org/ IUCr CheckCIF service] can be used to check the integrity and cosistency of crystal structure encodings in CIF.
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CIF stands for Crystallographic Information File and also Crystallographic Information Framework. They are promoted and standardised by the [http://www.iucr.org/ International Union of Crystallography]. See [http://www.iucr.org/resources/cif Documentation and Resources for Users and Developers of CIF Software]. The Wikipedia entry is "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_Information_File Crystallographic Information File]".
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== Identification ==
  
The [http://checkcif.iucr.org/ IUCr CheckCIF service] can be used to check the integrity and cosistency of crystal structure encodings in CIF. There are many CIF file examples in the [http://www.crystallography.net/result.php?journal=American+Mineralogist Crystallography Open Database].
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CIF files encoded with the current version should begin with the 11 bytes <code>#\#CIF_1.1</code> immediately followed by whitespace.
  
The MIME type for the CIF file format is chemical/x-cif. The file extension is .cif .
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== Specification ==
  
CIF files encoded with the current version should begin with the 11 bytes #\#CIF_1.1 immediately followed by whitespace.
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[http://www.iucr.org/resources/cif/spec Formal specification of the Crystallographic Information File format]
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== Sample files ==
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* http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/example.cif
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* [http://www.crystallography.net/result.php?journal=American+Mineralogist CIF files in Crystallography Open Database]
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== Links ==
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* [[Wikipedia:Crystallographic Information File]]

Latest revision as of 13:03, 27 October 2014

File Format
Name CIF
Ontology
Extension(s) .cif
MIME Type(s) chemical/x-cif

CIF stands for Crystallographic Information File and also Crystallographic Information Framework. The format is promoted and standardised by the International Union of Crystallography. See Documentation and Resources for Users and Developers of CIF Software.

The IUCr CheckCIF service can be used to check the integrity and cosistency of crystal structure encodings in CIF.

Contents

[edit] Identification

CIF files encoded with the current version should begin with the 11 bytes #\#CIF_1.1 immediately followed by whitespace.

[edit] Specification

Formal specification of the Crystallographic Information File format

[edit] Sample files

[edit] Links

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