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CBFlib Version 0.7.3 Features

The Crystallographic Binary File (CBF) format is a complementary format to the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) [1], supporting efficient storage of large quantities of experimental data in a self-describing binary format. The Image-supporting Crystallographic Information File (ImgCIF) format is a proposed extension to CIF to assist in ASCII debugging and archiving of CBF files and to allow for convenient and standardized inclusion of images, such as maps, diagrams and molecular drawing into publication CIFs. CBFlib provides an API for CBF/imgCIF, with the following features:

Support to read and write either CBF or CIF files.
Low level routines for detailed manipulations.
High level routines to facilitate rapid creation of CBF files.
Consistent use of CBF handles.
Management of large text fields on external files.
Support for two schemes for lossless compression.

The 0.7.3 release modified cbf_simple.c to reorder image data on read so that the indices are always increasing in memory (this behavior was undefined previously).

CBFlib 0.7.3 was released by Paul Ellis in October 2002.

1. S R Hall, F H Allen, and I D Brown, "The Crystallographic Information File (CIF): a New Standard Archive File for Crystallography", Acta Cryst., A47, 655-685 (1991)

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