CIF Software

for visualizing and preparing for publication structure reports submitted to IUCr journals in Word format

tools and a workspace to prepare the text, experimental data tables, and figures for a structural biology or crystallization communication

publCIF takes a crystallographic information file (CIF) and prepares a formatted paper (Preprint) in the style of Acta Crystallographica Sections C and E, and IUCrData.

provides comprehensive support for reading, writing and validating CIF using Python

Python interface to COD::CIF::Parser for detecting and reporting the most common CIF syntax errors, developed by the team of Crystallography Open Database developers

CIF syntax checking and file manipulation tool

molecular graphics visualisation tool

Stand-alone application for performing database-style queries on arbitrary STAR Files while preserving context as well as values.

Set of Perl modules for parsing STAR-compliant data files and dictionaries, including CIF and mmCIF, together with example scripts.

software package to transform data provided in the Self Defining Text Archival and Retrieval (STAR) format into XML

Small suite of test files conforming (or not) to STAR/CIF syntax rules and designed as an aid to parser development

vcif is a simple syntax checker for files in CIF format, including data and dictionary files. It may be used to scan any text file and outputs informative messages about apparent errors in CIF syntax.

vcif2 is an extended version of vcif, the syntax checker for files in CIF format. vcif2 will verify compliance with CIF 1.0, CIF 1.1 or mmCIF file formats; and will accept an arbitrary list of layered DDL1 and DDL2 dictionaries against which units, enumerations, parent-child relationships and category integrity will be checked.

CIF for Visual Studio Code is an extension that adds support for CIF (Crystallographic Information File) to VS Code. Features: syntax highlighting; completion and validation for names; hover over value to see corresponding _key and data_. Known errors: all dictionaries are not yet supported so there may be unnecessary warnings.

Package of 60 programs oriented towards small molecule automated structure solution, refinement, visualization, preparing publication quality tables and ORTEPs, CIF reading and writing. Additional leanings towards high precision charge density work - atomic charge calculations, contour and electric field maps +powder pattern calculation and visualization. Developed at the University of Western Australia.

Fortran programs to support the development and maintenance of STAR dictionaries written in the dictionary language DDLm. N.B. This is not fully compatible with the current DDLm specifications, but may be a useful starting point for developing in a Fortran environment.

interface to CIF for standard Unix tools