.CIF File Extension
Easy CD Creator Disk Image
| Developer | Corel |
| Popularity |
3.9 | 17 Votes |
What is a CIF file?
CD disc image format created by Corel and used by Roxio Easy CD Creator (now Roxio Creator); mounts as a physical CD in Windows and is viewable in "My Computer;" often used for creating backup copies of CDs.
Programs that open CIF files
Crystallographic Information File
| Developer | International Union of Crystallography |
| Popularity |
3.7 | 9 Votes |
Crystallographic data exchange format developed by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr); contains categories of crystallographic data used for archiving and distributing purposes.
More Information
The format was adopted in 1990 as a standard file structure and is regularly used for reporting crystal structure determinations. The CIF file contains data categories, such as _audit_, _atom_, _cell_, _database_, and _refine_. These categories contain information, including the CIF creation, atom type properties, cell parameters, data specified by the database managers, and data describing structure refinement parameters.