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Our approach to the FAIR Data Principles

Sophie Bryant – Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:57:00 GMT

The FAIR Data Principles stand for findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of data for both humans and machines. Here we highlight a few ways CCDC supports the FAIR Data Principles.

CSD in Action: achieving the largest possible mobility of organic semiconductors

Ioana Sovago – Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:17:00 GMT

Here we highlight a paper by researchers at the University of Liverpool and Università di Siena who used the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) to identify a set of promising compounds for use in semiconductors and a new tool for discovering materials with electronic properties. This is part of our series highlighting examples of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) tools in action by scientists around the world.

CSD Data update September 2021

Paul McKeown – Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:08:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the September 2021 data update of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is now available! This data update brings you 16,688 new organic and metal-organic experimentally determined structures (17,283 new entries) and increases the total size of the CSD to over 1,129,000 structures (1,152,000 entries).

Fantastic Four & the Summer Data Sharing

Kamila Nowakowska-Orzechowska – Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:14:00 GMT

It is that time of a year again when things get even busier in the Data Team with our annual summer programme that’s aiming to archive legacy data with the participation of young scientists. In this blog we wanted to highlight the impact this initiative has had on the wealth of structural data you can now access and share some insights from our amazing young scientists.

Search for chemical structures by a sketch - improved searching with CSD Sketcher v1.0

Seth Wiggin – Mon, 16 Aug 2021 09:18:00 GMT

We're pleased to announce the first full release of CSD Sketcher - which incorporates feedback from your testing of the alpha release. See what's new and try it for yourself.

How to get help with the CSD and CCDC software

Dave Bardwell – Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:17:00 GMT

What do you do when you don’t know how to install the latest updates of the CSD? Or your software is not ‘responding’? Here we’ll cover the different ways to get help and advice.

Rigaku School for Practical Crystallography: Applications of software, techniques and technologies

Jeff Lengyel – Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:21:00 GMT

I’m a Research and Applications Scientist on the Materials Science team at CCDC, and I recently taught a session at the Rigaku School for Practical Crystallography, which ran from June 7–18, 2021. The school focused on practical applications of software, techniques and technologies for crystallography. This blog contains links to my recorded modules as well as a self-assessment quiz you can use to check what you’ve learned.

May 2021 Data update

Yu Gan – Wed, 26 May 2021 11:50:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the May 2021 data update of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is now available! This data update brings you 17,004 new organic and metal-organic experimentally determined structures (17,651 new entries) and increases the total size of the CSD to over 1,113,000 structures (1,135,000 entries).

The February 2021 CSD Data Update

Stephen Holgate – Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the February 2021 data update of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is now available! This data update is available to users of our CSD software portfolio bringing you 20,058 new structures (20,698 new entries) and increasing the total size of the CSD to over 1.1 million structures.

Celebrating the 1.1 millionth structure

Paul McKeown – Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:33:00 GMT

Last week, the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has passed a total of 1,100,000 unique crystal structures within the database, marking the first milestone on the way to 2,000,000 structures! It wasn’t too long ago we were celebrating reaching 1 million structures (just 20 months!) and despite a year of global challenges and difficulties we are excited to start 2021 with this new achievement. A massive thank you to everyone who has contributed, not only to this feat, but to the continual growth of the CSD.

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Our approach to the FAIR Data Principles

CSD in Action: achieving the largest possible mobility of organic semiconductors

CSD Data update September 2021

Fantastic Four & the Summer Data Sharing

Search for chemical structures by a sketch - improved searching with CSD Sketcher v1.0

How to get help with the CSD and CCDC software

Rigaku School for Practical Crystallography: Applications of software, techniques and technologies

May 2021 Data update

The February 2021 CSD Data Update

Celebrating the 1.1 millionth structure

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