CIFters: Object Oriented Tools for Manipulating Crystallographic Information Files (CIF)

9310154 Bourne大分子结晶界最近通过了一套标准的数据定义，作为小分子结晶学已经衍生的子集的扩展，称为晶体信息文件(CIF)。大分子CIF定义将促进更简单的信息交换和丰富的受控词汇的高度期望的特征，供科学家在世界范围内扩展的学科中使用。快速采用CIF需要灵活、可互操作和可移植的软件工具。调查人员将建立一个类库和一套基于面向对象软件技术的工具，用于浏览、编辑、显示、查询、验证和格式化CIF文件，称为CIFter。此外，CIFters将可以从现有的大分子结晶学常用程序中调用，从而方便了对CIF文件的访问，进一步促进了CIF的使用。这个项目的长期目标是开发可扩展的软件工具，这些工具广泛适用于结构生物学社区。此外，该奖项还支持最终用户研讨会，以开始努力设计适当的CIFter。***

9310154 Bourne The macromolecular crystallography community has recently adopted a standard set of data definitions as extension to that subset already derived for small molecule crystallography and referred to as the Crystallographic Information File (CIF). Macromolecular CIF definitions will facilitate the highly desireable features of simpler information exchange and a rich controlled vocabulary for use world-wide by scientists in an expanding discipline. Speedy adoption of CIF requires flexible, interoperable, and portable software tools. The investigators will build a class library and a set of tools based on the object-oriented software technology to browse, edit, display, query, verify and format CIF files, called CIFters. In addition, CIFters will be callable from existing programs in common use in macromolecular crystallography facilitating access to CIF files, further promoting the use of CIF. The long term goal of this project is to develop extensible software tools which are widely available to the structural biology community. In addition, this award support an end-user workshop to begin the effort to design the appropriate CIFters. ***