Dear colleagues, As all of you know, CIF will soon be the only acceptable file format in macromolecular crystallography. CIF file has many advantages when compared to traditionally used stone-aged formats like PHS, MTZ, or archaic PDB. One of the advantages is the includability and mergability of independent information. So what is the future of the CIF file and the information content in it? Very soon, the structure CIF files provided as PDB deposits will be merged together with structure factor CIF files. The users will have to download just one file to check the structure together with the corresponding electron density maps. Later on, CBF files from our detectors (and many others as well) are very easy to transform into a single CIF file too. It means that the raw diffraction datasets will be distributed along with the structure and the structure factors, all included in a single CIF file. ;-) As a bonus, the PDB database will have the following address: http://www.pdb.cif
Best regards, Petr PS: Who knows? As everything will be in the SIngle cif File, it well may end up with SIF (not CIF) in the future! Reading of both is very similar. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
