While the RCSB maintains this resource for the community and does not moderate the list, the recent dissemination of a computer virus has made it necessary to for us to modify our policy. The Second International Structural Genomics Meeting will be held at the Airlie Conference Center in Warrenton, Virginia, April 4-6, 2001. Space is limited and applications should be completed as soon as possible. CIF's usefulness derives from its generality, upward compatibility, and flexibility. Users with a working knowledge of Perl and a basic familiarity of CIF or other STAR-compliant data file formats will benefit from these tools.
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The 8th issue of the PDB newsletter is now available from the PDB Web site. A printer-friendly version of this document is available, and a plain text copy is also accessible from the ftp site. The mmCIF dictionary and a set of dictionary extensions are used by the PDB team for all aspects of data processing. The PDB data uniformity project.