Data Item _symmetry.space_group_name_H-M

General

Item name
_symmetry.space_group_name_H-M
Category name
symmetry
Attribute name
space_group_name_H-M
Required in PDB entries
no
Used in current PDB entries
Yes, in about 93.8 % of entries

Item Description

Hermann-Mauguin space-group symbol. Note that the Hermann-Mauguin symbol does not necessarily contain complete information about the symmetry and the space-group origin. If used, always supply the FULL symbol from International Tables for Crystallography Vol. A (2002) and indicate the origin and the setting if it is not implicit. If there is any doubt that the equivalent positions can be uniquely deduced from this symbol, specify the _symmetry_equiv.pos_as_xyz or _symmetry.space_group_name_Hall data items as well. Leave spaces between symbols referring to different axes.

Item Examples

94

 A 1
 A 1 2 1
 A 2
 B 1 1 2
 B 2
 B 2 21 2
 C 2
 C 1 2 1
 C 21
 C 1 21 1
 C 2(A 112)
 C 2 2 2
 C 2 2 21
 C 4 21 2
 F 2 2 2
 F 2 3
 F 4 2 2
 F 4 3 2
 F 41 3 2
 I 1 2 1
 I 1 21 1
 I 2
 I 2 2 2
 I 2 3
 I 21
 I 21 3
 I 21 21 21
 I 4
 I 4 2 2
 I 4 3 2
 I 41
 I 41/a
 I 41 2 2
 I 41 3 2
 P 1
 P 1-
 P 2
 P 1 2 1
 P 1 1 2
 P 2 2 2
 P 2 3
 P 2 2 21
 P 2 21 21
 P 21
 P 1 21 1
 P 1 21/c 1
 P 1 1 21
 P 21(C)
 P 21 2 21
 P 21 3
 P 21 21 2
 P 21 21 2 A
 P 21 21 21
 P 3
 P 3 1 2
 P 3 2 1
 P 31
 P 31 1 2
 P 31 2 1
 P 32
 P 32 1 2
 P 32 2 1
 P 4
 P 4 2 2
 P 4 3 2
 P 4 21 2
 P 41
 P 41 2 2
 P 41 3 2
 P 41 21 2
 P 42
 P 42 2 2
 P 42 3 2
 P 42 21 2
 P 43
 P 43 2 2
 P 43 3 2
 P 43 21 2
 P 6
 P 6 2 2
 P 61
 P 61 2 2
 P 62
 P 62 2 2
 P 63
 P 63 2 2
 P 64
 P 64 2 2
 P 65
 P 65 2 2
 H 3
 R 3
 H 3 2
 R 3 2

Data Type

Data type code
line
Data type detail
char item types / multi-word items ...
Primitive data type code
char
Regular expression
[][ \t_(),.;:"&<>/\{}'`~!@#$%?+=*A-Za-z0-9|^-]*

Aliases

Alias Item Name Dictionary Name Dictionary Version
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M cif_core.dic 2.0.1