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  1. Community Toolkit from Crystal Conversations

    Sophie Bryant – Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:03:00 GMT

    Hundreds of people have joined the CCDC and BACG at the Crystal Conversations virtual events this year - for tutorials, talks and tea breaks for solid form scientists of all disciplines. This month we built a community toolkit of resources that help you do great work.

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  2. Going virtual – the first CCDC UGM held online!

    Carmen Nitsche – Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:41:00 GMT

    A few months ago, watching the news of COVID-19 spreading, we knew it would not be safe to hold our user group meeting at a hotel in Cambridge, MA as planned. Rather than cancelling, we moved this to become a virtual event which went ahead on the same date, 24th April 2020.

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  3. What happens at a CCDC User Group Meeting (UGM) ?

    Peter Wood – Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:06:00 GMT

    Each year we hold User Group Meetings, or UGMs, as a chance to meet with scientists from all areas of industry and academia who are using our software. This quick summary outlines what happens on the day, and why you should attend if you haven't before.

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  4. African adventures

    Suzanna Ward – Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:13:00 GMT

    It was with much excitement that Amy Sarjeant and I headed off to the second Pan African Conference on Crystallography (PCCr2) in Ghana at the end of February. This wasn’t our first visit to the African continent on behalf of the CCDC and each trip has been a memorable and rewarding experience.

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  5. CSP Blind Test - Best Ever Results!

    Colin Groom – Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

    ​One of the most exciting events we hold at the CCDC are our blind tests of crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods. This one turned out to be the best yet. CSP is a really attractive problem as the challenge is beautifully simply to express, but monumentally difficult to solve. Perhaps this is why the entire CSP community comes together every few years, often pooling resources, to have a crack. It’s a wonderful model that could be applied to all sorts of challenges in chemistry and other areas of science.

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  6. 50 Years Later...

    Suzanna Ward – Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:00:00 GMT

    ​When Olga Kennard began collecting crystal structures in 1965, she believed that the collective use of experimental data would lead to the discovery of new knowledge which transcends the results of individual experiments. I hope she will be proud of how the collection she began is playing such a pivotal role in chemistry research world-wide in the 21st century. I am certainly looking forward to hearing her talk at our CSD50 symposium this week.


    Crystallography is a unique discipline in that crystallographers share their research results as a matter of course. Since the inception of the CSD in 1965, the CCDC has fully played its role in sharing this data and we are able to make the entire collection of over 780,000 entries available to all scientists across the world.  As well as helping you ensure your research results are made accessible to everyone, we’ve developed analysis software that enables experimental data to be turned into insights that really help scientists make informed decisions. Today, the CSD is used in virtually every chemistry laboratory - both academic and industrial – for primary research, drug discovery and development, materials science and more.

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  7. Crystal Structure Prediction - New Methods for an Old Challenge

    Anthony Reilly – Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:00:00 GMT

    ​The prospect of understanding and designing the solid forms of organic molecules completely in silico is a tantalising one. For over 25 years, crystallographers and computational chemists have faced the challenge of trying to predict organic crystal structures.

    While crystal-structure prediction (CSP) has a long way to go before it can be used routinely and reliably, it is already beginning to play an important role in understanding the organic solid-form landscape, as seen in some recent industrial examples from GSK (doi: 10.1021/cg400090r), Eli Lilly (doi: 10.1021/cg301826s) and Pfizer (doi: 10.1021/op300274s), among others.

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  8. Revisiting Montréal

    Steve Maginn – Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:26:00 GMT

    This August, the 23rd IUCr Congress and General Assembly was held in Montréal, Canada. The fourth such event had taken place in Montréal back in 1957, so this was something of a revisit, bestowing the city with the honour of being the first to host the Congress twice. My attendance at the event along with Colin Groom, Pete Wood, Suzanna Ward and Paul Davie was also something of a revisit for me, as my former employers CCG, are based there, and so I had been a frequent visitor during my time working with them, and know the city well.

    The IUCr Congress and General Assembly lasts for eight days – the longest conference of any with which I am familiar. All the events of the Congress were held within the Palais des Congrés de Montréal, including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the Conference Banquet. The Palais is an interesting building; the bulk of which is of 1980s construction, with a more recent extension providing some shops and a large, airy foyer with a multi-coloured glass wall. At the Opening Ceremony we were entertained by two local circus performers and a local jazz band played at the Conference Banquet. Beyond the Palais des Congrés, Montréal is a vibrant, characterful city - as anyone who ventured away from the conference events will no doubt attest – and it was made doubly so during this week as many of the world’s top women tennis players were staying at the same hotel as us, next to the Palais des Congress, during the Rogers Cup tournament!

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  9. Montreal Bound

    Shyam Vyas – Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:57:00 GMT

    ​This is my first blog entry for the CCDC. I am proud to say that it is a first from the US office – Paul’s previous blog entry doesn’t count as he transferred over from our Cambridge office in the UK. In the six months I have been with the CCDC I have learned a lot, and found it an impressive place to work. More importantly, I’ve now had the chance to interact with quite a few of our US customers. I am continually amazed at how well-respected the organization is by our customers, depositors and contributors. I hope that we can make sure this continues to be the case.

    The ramping up of our North American operation coincides with the UNESCO International Year of Crystallography and the 23rd IUCr Congress being in Montreal this year (where it was last held in 1957!). There will be several CCDC staff members there, from both the US and UK, so if you’re attending please come and see the CCDC exhibition stand at booth 213/215!

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  10. What’s new in data deposition?

    Jenny Field – Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:02:00 GMT
    ​We are always looking for ways to get data into the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) more quickly and efficiently, so we are delighted to have new data deposition arrangements with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). They have started depositing small molecule X-ray crystal data for all their journals with us prior to a journal’s publication. We then issue CCDC deposition numbers, and for the first time CCDC numbers will be published in IUCr journals (referred to as CCDC references).

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