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Cambridge Cheminformatics Network and Digital Drug Discovery meeting November 2022

This cross-site meeting will welcome in-person attendees from Cambridge UK, Oxford UK and Berlin Germany as well as virtual attendees worldwide! Free ...

Exploring Pharmaceutical Chemical and Mechanical Properties with CSD-Particle – Your Questions Answered

Eliminating potential manufacturing bottlenecks before they occur is highly advantageous in all industries. In the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and a...

Conclusions of the 7th Crystal Structure Prediction Blind Test

Crystal Structure Prediction boundaries pushed beyond the pharmaceutical sector to areas such as electronics and photonics. Seven structures of 2D sy...

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24/11/2022 11:09

Brilliant presentation from Samuel Tetteh, our CSD Champion in Ghana, about the value of using the 1.2M crystal structures for education and research. Join us tomorrow 24th Nov @11a.m. (local time) for the workshop: Learning from 1.2 million structures. #Crystallography https://t.co/hitc5QLRtX

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