Updated 20 August, 2007
| Colleagues | Indiana University Molecular Structure Center Kevin Cowtan at Univeristy of York has a good list of crystallographic links (books, programs, C++) Martin Lutz at Utrecht University, The Netherlands MIT Crystallographic facilities: Peter Mueller The Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 in Protein Crystallography (CCP4) |
| Databases |
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre distributes programs such as Conquest, Mercury, enCIFer. Links to several other databases are available from the Chemistry Library Page. |
| Education | The UW-Madison Chemistry Library has a good spectrum of links for X-ray Crystallography. Interactive tutorial about diffraction Links to books and references are available from the Chemistry Library Page. |
| Meetings | 15th Bruker-Nonius CCD Users Group Meeting in Madison, WI, USA, September 16-18, 2007 The Inaugural Meeting of the Struchkov Prize Society titled "Structural methods in chemistry, biology and medicine", Chicago, IL, USA, August 10-13, 2007. |
| Organization and Societies | International Union of Crystallography has recently released program publCIF that is exceptionally valuable in preparation of manuscripts for Acta Cryst. C and E: go to http://www.iucr.org/, select Acta Cryst. C, Author Services, How to Prepare Your Paper, publCIF. American Crystallographic Association British Crystallographic Association. (accessed 12/15/06) European Crystallographic Association. (accessed 12/15/06) Links to several other organizations are available from the Chemistry Library Page. |
| Software | Bruker-AXS - Programs distributed by my favorite X-ray vendor. Coot - A new excellent Crystallographic Object-Oriented Toolkit for macromolecular refinement. PLATON. A versatile crystallographic program implementing a large variety of standard geometrical calculations, tests, utilities, graphics and several filters. ROTAX for Windows twinning software (Determine Twin Matrix from Fo/Fc Data) by Simon Parsons and Bob Gould. SHELXTL The latest versions of the software written by Prof. George Sheldrick are available with the password. The public domain SHELX package programs are also available. |
| Vendors | Bruker-AXS, Hamptom Research, CryoIndustries, MiTeGen, Oxford Cryosystems, Oxford Diffraction, Rigaku |