Data Category space_group

General

Category name
space_group
Required in PDB entries
yes
Category group membership
symmetry_group
Used in current PDB entries
Yes, in about 1.5 % of entries

Category Relationship Diagrams

70
View full category relationship diagram including all dictionary data categories
70
View abbreviated category relationship diagram including only those categories used in current PDB entries.

Category Description

               Contains all the data items that refer to the space group as a
               whole, such as its name, Laue group etc.  It may be looped, for
               example, in a list of space groups and their properties.

               Space group types are identified by their International Tables
               for Crystallography Vol A number or Schoenflies symbol.  
               Specific settings of the space groups can be identified by
               their Hall symbol, by specifying their symmetry operations or
               generators, or by giving the transformation that relates the
               specific setting to the reference setting based on
               International Tables for Crystallography Vol. A and stored in
               this dictionary.

               The commonly-used Hermann-Mauguin symbol determines the
               space group type uniquely but several different Hermann-Mauguin
               symbols may refer to the same space group type. It contains
               information on the choice of the basis, but not on the
               choice of origin.

Category Example

 
           _space_group.id                        1
           _space_group.name_H-M            'C 2/c'
           _space_group.name_Schoenflies      C2h.6
           _space_group.IT_number                15
           _space_group.name_Hall          '-C 2yc'
           _space_group.Bravais_type             mS
           _space_group.Laue_class              2/m
           _space_group.crystal_system   monoclinic
           _space_group.centring_type             C
           _space_group.Patterson_name_H-M  'C 2/m'

Key Data Items