The Self-Defining Text Archive and Retrieval (STAR) File, or simply the STAR File, is a text-based file format for storing structured data. It was proposed in 1991 by Sydney R. Hall. The format became widely used in molecular-structure sciences, although it is not specific to this field—it was designed as a universal approach to electronic data exchange and archiving.
2-573: NMR-STAR is an extension of the STAR file format to store the results of biological NMR experiments. This article about chemistry software is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Self-defining Text Archive and Retrieval One characteristic feature of the STAR File format is that data names (keys in key–value pairs ) start with the underscore. They are separated from data values only by white space, for example: The format
4-508: Was designed to provide a concise syntax for tabular data. The construct for this is called loop . Loops start with the loop_ keyword followed by names corresponding to columns and then by values. Using a "Dictionary Definition Language" file, itself a STAR File, STAR sub-formats can be defined for particular use cases. One notable STAR-based format is the Crystallographic Information File format. The "STAR FILE" name
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