Addition to Crystallographic Information Resources

The Crystallographic Information File (CIF)

CIF (Crystallographic Information File): A Standard for Crystallographic Data Interchange

The Crystallographic Information File (CIF) uses the self-defining STAR file structure. This requires the creation of a dictionary of data names and definitions. A basic dictionary of terms needed to describe the crystal structures of small molecules was approved in 1991 and is currently used for the submission of papers to Acta Crystallographica C. A number of extensions to this dictionary are...

Linking Textual Resources to Support Information Discovery

A vast amount of information is today stored in the form of textual documents, many of which are available online. These documents come from different sources and are of different types. They include newspaper articles, books, corporate reports, encyclopedia entries and research papers. At a semantic level, these documents contain knowledge, which was created by explicitly connecting informatio...

Reusable graphical interface to genome information resources.

This paper describes a prototype genome display and query system for the World Wide Web, which could play the role of a graphical interactive gateway to online genome information services. It provides a uniform interface to display mapping and sequencing data for the human, mouse and yeast genomes and could be easily extended to accommodate more information as it becomes available. This system ...

Auditing Dynamic Links to Online Information Resources

The Columbia University Infobutton Manager (IM) is a system that provides dynamically generated, context-specific links between clinical information systems and online information resources. The resources range from local documents, to commercially available document sets and search engines. The links provided by the IM can be reliably created, but there is no guarantee that they will function ...