THE CAMBIDGE STRUCTURAL DATABASE

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is the only comprehensive collection of small-molecule organic and organometallic crystal structures. All of these crystal structures have been analysed using X-ray or neutron diffraction techniques.
The database contains crystal structures for over 322,000 organic and organometallic compounds.
A new release of the database is received and mounted every 2 months.

Software packages have been developed for the search, retrieval, display and analysis of CSD information. The CSD software system is used world-wide by both academic and industrial research groups and is supported and developed on an ongoing basis by CCDC (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre) staff in Cambridge.

The ConQuest software has been developed for the search, retrieval, display and analysis of CSD information.
Access is via X-windows.

CrystalWeb, designed by CDS, allows bibliographic (author, journal etc.) and cell data searching over the Web. Structures can be displayed and the reference is automatically linked to electronic literature giving single click access to online journals (if Institute has licence agreement).

PreQuest enables users to build their own private databases of structures that are then searchable either independently of, or in conjunction with, the CSD.

Knowledge Bases

is a knowledge base of non-bonded interactions derived from the CSD, the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (PDB) and molecular orbital calculations.
It is now available via a simple Netscape-Rasmol interface which gives the user a highly graphical, easy-to-use intranet application.

Mogul is a knowledge base of Molecular Geometry using data derived from the CSD.

Utilities

Mercury offers comprehensive facilities for visualising crystal structures in three dimensions and the exploration of crystal packing.

Vista is a VIsual STAtistics package