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The CCDC grew out of an academic crystallography group in the Department of Chemistry of Cambridge University. The objective of that group was the determination of crystal structures of compounds supplied by members of the Department and by academic collaborators, as shown by early publications. Special emphasis in the 1970s was given to contributions to the emerging area of direct methods of crystal structure determination and in applying these techniques to the determination, during the 1970s and 1980s, of the structures of natural products, pharmaceuticals, steroids and oligonucleotides.
The inception of the Cambridge Structural Database broadened the scientific activities of the CCDC very considerably. Associated pages in this section present brief historical overviews of developments in:
- Database creation
- Data dissemination
- CSD System Software for search, retrieval, display and analysis of the CSD
- Knowledge base development
- Applications software development
- Basic research using CSD data.
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