IUCr Discussion Lists

The International Union of Crystallography provides facilities for e-mail based discussion lists on topics relevant to the Union and the field of crystallography.

General information about e-mail discussion lists

Current IUCr lists
Other lists of related interest

Current lists

Name	Purpose	Type*	Archive	Owner
General Community lists
strchem	A forum for crystallographers involved in structural chemistry to exchange ideas and information.	O	Public	Judy Flippen-Anderson flippen@harker.nrl.navy.mil
sa_scat	A forum for crystallographers involved in structural chemistry to exchange ideas and information.	O	Public	John Barnes jdbsci@speakeasy.org
IUCr Commissions
compcomm-l	Commission on Crystallographic Computing	R	Public	Lachlan Cranswick L.M.D.Cranswick@dl.ac.uk
teaching-commission	Commission on Crystallographic Teaching	R	Public	Lachlan Cranswick L.M.D.Cranswick@dl.ac.uk
IUCr Subcommittees
epc-l	Committee for the Electronic Publishing, Dissemination and Storage of Information.	R	Public	Howard Flack Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch
Regional Associates
ecacomsig	European Crystallographic Association Computing Special Interest Group.	P	Public	Lachlan Cranswick L.M.D.Cranswick@dl.ac.uk
The CIF Project
cif-developers	Forum for CIF software developers	O	Public	Brian McMahon bm@iucr.org
COMCIFS	Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF Standard	R	Public	Brian McMahon bm@iucr.org
coreDMG	COMCIFS Core Dictionary Maintenance Group	R	Public	Brian McMahon bm@iucr.org
coreCIFchem	COMCIFS Core DMG working party on chemical and molecular descriptions in CIF	R	Public	Brian McMahon bm@iucr.org
pdDMG	COMCIFS Powder Diffraction Dictionary Maintenance Group	R	Public	Brian Toby brian.toby@nist.gov

O: Open: Anyone may subscribe
P: Private: Subscribers are added at the discretion of the list owner
R: Restricted: Subscribers are restricted to the members of a Commission, Committee or Working Group
Communications by non-subscribers to private or restricted lists should be directed to the list owner.

Other lists of interest

The following discussion lists are archived on this server, but managed elsewhere.

Name	Purpose	Subscription Address	Subscription Request
mmciflist	Working Group on mmCIF (macromolecular Crystallographic Information File)	requests@ndbserver.rutgers.edu	`subscribe mmciflist Your Name`
mmciftools	Software tools supporting macromolecular CIF	requests@ndbserver.rutgers.edu	`subscribe mmciftools Your Name`
mmddlnews	Working Group on DDL2.1 (dictionary definition language for mmCIF)	requests@ndbserver.rutgers.edu	`subscribe mmddlnews Your Name`
imgcif-l	Working Group on imgCIF/CBF (binary format for the storage and archiving of image data)	listproc@bnl.gov	`subscribe imgcif-l Your Name`

Updated 5 September 2002

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