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Core dictionary (coreCIF) version 2.4.5

_database_code_

Names:
'_database_code_CAS' '_database_code_COD' '_database_code_CSD' '_database_code_ICSD' '_database_code_MDF' '_database_code_NBS' '_database_code_PDB' '_database_code_PDF'

Definition:

   The codes are assigned by databases: Chemical Abstracts;
   Crystallography Open Database (COD);
   Cambridge Structural Database (organic and metal-organic
   compounds); Inorganic Crystal Structure Database; Metals
   Data File (metal structures); NBS (NIST) Crystal Data
   Database (lattice parameters); Protein Data Bank; and the
   Powder Diffraction File (JCPDS/ICDD).

Type: char

Category: database


International Tables for Crystallography

Volume G: Definition and exchange of crystallographic data

First online edition (2006)

Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon

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