Solutions

Data, Software and Services to advance structural science.

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) are world-leading experts in structural chemistry data, software and knowledge for materials and life sciences research and development.

CCDC data, software and services are trusted by academic and industrial institutions around the world with tens of thousands of active users.

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What we do.

For Industry

Our solutions are trusted by top pharmaceutical, agrochemical and other commercial research organisations.

Learn how our tools support the discovery and development of drugs, crop protection products, and novel materials

For Academia

Top academic institutions use our data and software to support their research and teaching.

From novel research to discover drugs or develop new materials, to teaching undergraduates fundamental chemistry concepts.

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It's our mission to advance structural science - but this truly happens in the hands of our global user base.

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CSD Data and Software

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CSD suites:

• CSD-Core — search and view the world's known small molecules.
• CSD-Discovery — discover new molecules for pharmaceuticals or agrochemicals.
• CSD-Materials — develop new materials, understand and refine solid form product properties.
• CSD-Theory — manage crystal structure prediction (CSP) landscapes.
• CSD-Particle — explore particles' chemical and mechanical properties.
• CSD-Community — a selection of basic tools for free, including tools for crystallography data management.

CSD products:

• The CSD — the Cambridge Structural Database, the world's database of small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures.
• Mercury — crystal structure visualisation, exploration and analysis made easy.
• Hermes — visualize macromolecules in 3D including proteins and antibodies.
• CSD Python API — construct and combine detailed search and analysis and produce tailored scripting workflows to search and analyse molecular structures.
• IsoStar — a knowledge-based library of intermolecular interactions.
• ConQuest — perform advanced 3D searching of structures in the Cambridge Structural Database.
• WebCSD — the online portal to search and view structures in the Cambridge Structural Database.
• Mogul — validate your experimental or predicted structures and highlight unusual features.
• SuperStar — knowledge-based pharmacophore generation and prediction of intermolecular interactions.
• GOLD — the validated, configurable, protein-ligand docking software for expert drug discovery.
• CSD-CrossMiner — match molecules to targets through intuitive, interactive data mining.
• CSD-Theory Web — display, search, and analyse your crystal structure prediction results in a simple web-based interface.
• CSD-Theory API — generate access and search databases from your CSP data with Python scripts.
• CSD Landscape Generator — generate a solid form landscape of any single- or multi-component system. Quickly, easily, empirically.