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:
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:
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.
This page has been produced by Andy Hammersley (E-mail: hammersley@esrf.fr).
It is subject to further modification. If you have helpful suggestions,
please send them to me.
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.