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CCP4 (file format)

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Filename extension
  
.ccp4

Type of format
  
electron density file

The CCP4 file format is file generated by the Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 in 1979. The file format for electron density has become industry standard in X-ray crystallography and Cryo-electron microscopy where the result of the technique is a three-dimensional grid of voxels each with a value corresponding to density of electrons (see wave function) The CCP4 format is supported by almost every molecular graphics suite that supports volumetric data. The major packages include:

  • Visual molecular dynamics
  • PyMOL
  • UCSF Chimera
  • Bsoft
  • Coot
  • MOE
  • References

    CCP4 (file format) Wikipedia