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It was my extreme pleasure to be able to attend the first ever Pan-African conference dedicated to crystallography last month at the University of Dschang, Cameroon. Nearly 200 crystallographers from around the world attended the meeting to present their work and to establish connections and collaborations throughout Africa. Suzanna Ward and I were pleased to catch up with Françoise Amombo Noa in Dschang and hear more about her research. Frequent visitors to the CCDC website and Facebook page may remember Françoise as one of the researchers responsible for our 750,000th structure – announced last summer. Françoise was kind enough to send us some of her impressions of PCCr1 for inclusion in this blog…
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The 2017 CSD Release is now available for download from the CCDC website – if you haven’t already installed it, then hopefully this post will persuade you to do so right away! There is a whole range of improvements this year, both within the database itself and the software, but the overarching focus has been on improving the usability of the system based on feedback from you – our user community.