The Chemical MIME Project
"Chemical MIME" is a de facto approach for adding MIME types to chemical streams.
This project started in January 1994, and was first announced during the Chemistry workshop at the First WWW International Conference, held at CERN in May 1994. The first version of an Internet draft was published during May–October 1994, and the second revised version during April–September 1995. A paper presented to the CPEP (Committee on Printed and Electronic Publications) at the IUPAC meeting in August 1996 is available for discussion.
| file extension | MIME type | proper name | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| alc | chemical/x-alchemy | Alchemy Format | |
| csf | chemical/x-cache-csf | CAChe MolStruct CSF | |
| cbin, cascii, ctab | chemical/x-cactvs-binary | CACTVS format | |
| cdx | chemical/x-cdx | ChemDraw eXchange file | |
| cer | chemical/x-cerius | MSI Cerius II format | |
| c3d | chemical/x-chem3d | Chem3D Format | |
| chm | chemical/x-chemdraw | ChemDraw file | |
| cif | chemical/x-cif | Crystallographic Information File, Crystallographic Information Framework | Promulgated by the International Union of Crystallography |
| cmdf | chemical/x-cmdf | CrystalMaker Data format | |
| cml | chemical/x-cml | Chemical Markup Language | XML based Chemical Markup Language. |
| cpa | chemical/x-compass | Compass program of the Takahashi | |
| bsd | chemical/x-crossfire | Crossfire file | |
| csm, csml | chemical/x-csml | Chemical Style Markup Language | |
| ctx | chemical/x-ctx | Gasteiger group CTX file format | |
| cxf, cef | chemical/x-cxf | Chemical eXchange Format | |
| emb, embl | chemical/x-embl-dl-nucleotide | EMBL Nucleotide Format | |
| spc | chemical/x-galactic-spc | SPC format for spectral and chromatographic data | |
| inp, gam, gamin | chemical/x-gamess-input | GAMESS Input format | |
| fch, fchk | chemical/x-gaussian-checkpoint | Gaussian Checkpoint Format | |
| cub | chemical/x-gaussian-cube | Gaussian Cube (Wavefunction) Forma | |
| gau, gjc, gjf | chemical/x-gaussian-input | Gaussian Input Format | |
| gcg | chemical/x-gcg8-sequence | Protein Sequence Format | |
| gen | chemical/x-genbank | ToGenBank Format | |
| istr,ist | chemical/x-isostar | IsoStar Library of Intermolecular Interactions | |
| jdx, dx | chemical/x-jcamp-dx | JCAMP Spectroscopic Data Exchange Format | |
| kin | chemical/x-kinemage | Kinetic (Protein Structure) Images; Kinemage | |
| mcm | chemical/x-macmolecule | MacMolecule File Format | |
| mmd, mmod | chemical/x-macromodel-input | MacroModel Molecular Mechanics | |
| mol | chemical/x-mdl-molfile | MDL Molfile | |
| smiles, smi | chemical/x-daylight-smiles | Simplified molecular input line entry specification | A line notation for molecules. |
| sdf | chemical/x-mdl-sdfile | Structure-Data File | |
| el | chemical/x-sketchel | SketchEl Molecule | |
| ds | chemical/x-datasheet | SketchEl XML DataSheet | |
| inchi | chemical/x-inchi | The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier | |
| jsd, jsdraw | chemical/x-jsdraw | JSDraw native file format |
The definitive specification is at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/ which is updated when major new types appear.
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