International Tables for Crystallography

Volume G: Definition and exchange of crystallographic data

First online edition (2006)

Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon
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CIF dictionaries

Describes CIF, the data exchange standard of crystallography. Provides: information for scientists who wish to record or use the results of a single-crystal or powder diffraction experiment; the data ontology necessary for designing interoperable computer applications; accompanying software including machine-readable CIF dictionaries, libraries and utility programs.

An essential guide and reference to CIF for programmers, data managers handling crystal-structure information and practising crystallographers.

Index

Protein Data Bank exchange dictionary (pdbx) version 1.0521

_database_2.database_code

Name:
'_database_2.database_code'

Definition:

   The code assigned by the database identified in
   _database_2.database_id.

Examples:

1ABC
ABCDEF

Type: line

Mandatory item: yes

Related items: _database.code_CAS (replaces)
_database.code_CSD (replaces)
_database.code_ICSD (replaces)
_database.code_MDF (replaces)
_database.code_NBS (replaces)
_database.code_PDF (replaces)

Category: database_2