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I. Standard information exchange formalisms: mmCIF and structural bioinformatics

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 Westbrook, John

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I. Standard information exchange formalisms: mmCIF and structural bioinformatics
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A jewel in the crown of structural biology, the Protein Data Bank is an unparalleled archive of protein and nucleic acid structures. Its operation depends on information-rich relational databases, the schemas for which are efficiently expressed in the macromolecular CIF (mmCIF) formalism. Discrete entities that may be stored in the databases are characterised in CIF-format data dictionaries, which express ontologies widely used in areas as diverse as structural genomics, NMR, cryo-electron microscopy and protein production.
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