CIF Software

Last Update Nov. 07, 1995
CIF Editor

Abstract

This page contains information on known software for use with Crystallographic Information Files (CIFs). A similar list is also maintained at Rutgers University.

What Exists and Where To Go

Libraries
- CIF C++ library from Peter Murray-Rust (DDL 1.x compliant).
- SIFLIB - C Language Application Program Interface from John Westbrook siflib@ndbserver.rutgers.edu (DDL2.x compliant).
Basic Parsing and Manipulation
- CIFtbx2 - Extended CIF Tool Box (Fortran) from Herbert Bernstein and Syd Hall (DDL2.x compliant).
- STAR parser (Objective C) from Phil Bourne and Weider Chang (DDL1.x and 2.x compliant). See OOSTAR for further details.
Filtering
- CIF2HTML (C++) from Peter Murray-Rust (DDL 1.x compliant).
- STAR2HTML (Objective C) from Phil Bourne and Weider Chang (DDL1.x and 2.x compliant). See OOSTAR for further details.
- pdb2cif (AWK) PDB to mmCIF convertor (Test Version) from Phil Bourne and Herbert Bernstein (DDL2.x compliant).