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CSD-CrossMiner in action: Identifying a target protein for new pharmaceuticals via scaffold search

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Upcoming Events

Join our regular webinars, virtual workshops, and meet our team at conferences and meetings around the world.

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23
March

4 PM (GMT) 11 AM (ET)
CCDC Webinar: Scaffold Hopping for Digital Drug Design

Matching molecules to targets through intuitive, interactive data mining including scaffold hopping using CSD-CrossMiner.


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25
March

19th Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis 2023

The school is intended primarily for younger scientists with some experience of structure analysis.


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3
April

39th BCA - British Crystallographic Association 2023

The annual BCA Spring Meeting brings together all four subject groups and the Young Crystallographers group for a three-day conference.


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16
April

Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography 5 (HTCC5) 2023

Experimental advances in macromolecular crystallography.


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25
May

CCDC Webinar: May 2023

The CCDC webinars are an excellent opportunity to learn more about software updates and new developments.


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20
July

CCDC Webinar: July 2023

The CCDC webinars are an excellent opportunity to learn more about software updates and new developments.


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7
September

28th Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting 2022

Join us for the virtual workshop: The Cambridge Structural Database – Analysing intermolecular interactions using the Mercury program


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21
September

CCDC Webinar: September 2023

The CCDC webinars are an excellent opportunity to learn more about software updates and new developments.


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2
October

24th Larson Workshop 2022

The workshop brings together principal investigators in academia, technical staff experts in government, and industrial practitioners in crystallization. Ian Bruno from the CCDC is presenting.


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24
October

2nd FAIR Convergence Symposium & 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects 2022

A week dedicated to FAIR implementation and specifically to FAIR Digital Objects.


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