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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. A Return to Crystallography – ECM-28

    Steve Maginn – Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:45:00 GMT

    ​The European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-28) at Warwick University in August this year marked my personal return to the world of crystallographic conferences after a gap of some eleven years. I recently returned to work at the CCDC, having left in 2002, and spent the intervening 11 years working in the drug discovery software industry which, although related and relevant, is quite a different community.

     
    ECM events take place every year, except for those in which there is an IUCr Congress. Hence the last event took place in 2012 in Bergen, Norway, and it is some considerable time since the UK hosted an ECM, in 1977. The last major international crystallographic event in the UK took place in 1999, when the IUCr Congress was hosted in Glasgow – I had the honour of being on the organising committee on that occasion, and I’m delighted to say that the professional organisers for the Warwick ECM were the same people as at Glasgow – Northern Networking, run by Gill Moore. It was great to see her again after all this time.

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  4. CCDC at Cambridge Science Festival

    Gwenda Kyd – Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:58:00 GMT

    ​Last weekend CCDC organised some guided walks round our Chemicals from Plants Trail at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, as part of Cambridge Science Festival.  The 2013 Festival consisted of over 200 events overseen by Guest Director Benedict Cumberbatch. 

    The walks booked up quickly and we were all hoping for a nice stroll in the Spring sunshine. However the weather was not quite as planned, with Arctic winds, horizontal snow and sub-zero temperatures- over 20 degrees colder than the same day last year!

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  5. That time again already? Planning for the 2013 Spring ACS National Meeting

    Colin Groom – Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:00:00 GMT

    Deadlines for next year’s Spring ACS National Meeting are fast approaching and we have been making plans for CCDC’s attendance in New Orleans.

    The sheer scale of the ACS National Meetings means there’s always far more going on than you have time for and this meeting looks to be no exception. With sessions covering topics that include “Public Databases Serving the Chemistry Community” (Division of Chemical Information), “Drug Discovery: Chemical and Structural Informatics” and “Materials Science” (Division of Computational Chemistry), there looks to be a lot that is relevant to the CCDC’s activities in drug discovery, crystallography and as a provider of scientific data to the community. We’ll be submitting abstracts to some of these sessions and attending as many as we can.

    A session I’m more intimately involved in is one on “Linking Bioinformatic and Cheminformatic Data” which I am co-organising with John Overington from EMBL-EBI. The linkage of chemical and biological spaces is central to the successful understanding and modulation of biological systems, with applications from drug design, the engineering of new molecules, and chemical safety. Because of the historical separation of biology and chemistry at an academic level, our sense is that there are relatively few scientists trained at the interface between these two areas, and few database resources to support their research. Our aims for this session are to offer a review of current challenges surrounding this interface, and explore applications and new directions in the linking and mining of bio- and cheminformatic data. If you have a talk that might be relevant to this session then abstracts can be submitted up until 15 Oct 2012 via http://abstracts.acs.org (Session Code CINF001).

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  6. Crystallography in Kinshasa - CCDC visit to the DRC

    Juliette Pradon – Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:55:00 GMT
    I recently had the chance to go to the University of Kinshasa for a week to present the CSD and its applications in both teaching and research. Not only was it my first time doing a presentation and workshops about the CSD, but it was also my first time in Africa and it was to be a memorable experience on all accounts.
     
    Leaving London on a very wet and drab Friday morning, I arrived in Kinshasa after nearly a day of travelling to be greeted by a dense and humid heat. I was to learn that this was nothing compared to the weather conditions during the rainy season, but the contrast with the inclement England weather was very welcome. Having been met by Professor Zéphirin Yav at the airport, I arrived at the UNIKIN guesthouse on the university campus after three hours of never ending traffic jams. I stayed at the guesthouse for the duration of my stay, a small structure for hosting visitors to the university but made into a very welcoming space by the staff. In particular I will remember fondly Maman Pauline who not only cooked excellent Congolese food (spicy captain fish accompanied by plantains was a particularly delicious dish) but also dispensed sound relationship advice! Other highlights of the guesthouse include sleeping under a mosquito net, although it felt a little irrelevant as I only encountered two mosquitoes throughout my stay, being woken up every morning by the exotic songs of the local birds, and occasionally hearing the thud of a mango falling on the sand from the large mango tree in the garden.

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  7. Welcome!

    Colin Groom – Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

    I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the new and improved CCDC website. Given the big changes that have been implemented (both in terms of the layout and with the technology behind the scenes) we’ve decided to first launch the new site as this ‘beta-release’. This should give you a chance to get used to the updated look, while still giving you the backup of the site you’ve become familiar with over the past few years. Importantly for us, it also allows you to give us your views and feedback as we continue to develop the site. If you have a few spare minutes, please take a look around the new site and fill in our feedback form (there should be a link to the form from every page), we really are keen to hear what you think.

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