CSD Data Partnerships
We understand the power of quality data, and strong collaborations. That is why we have built partnerships with other trusted scientific data repositories.
Through these partnerships, we ensure that CSD users, publishers, and other interested parties can easily access relevant, quality data across platforms and providers to support their work.
We are proud to be a CoreTrustSeal certified data repository, and look to partner with organizations that understand the importance of high-quality data.
View CCDC’s CoreTrustSeal certification here.
This list details current advanced partnerships between the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and other data repositories.
If you are interested in partnering with us, please get in touch here.
We also partner with other software providers to allow scientists to access and use our data in many ways. See a list of our software partners here.
CSD Data Partners
ChEMBL
The ChEMBL database is home to 2D structures, calculated properties and abstracted bioactivities of small molecules. It houses over 1.9 million structures and is managed by EMBL-EBI, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute.
In 2020 the CCDC announced their partnership with ChEMBL as part of the BioChemGraph project.
Read more about the partnership
FIZ Karlsruhe, ICSD
FIZ Karlsruhe are the curators of the ICSD – the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database.
Since 2018 the CCDC and FIZ Karlsruhe have offered free, unified deposition and access of crystal structure data so that scientists and publishers can deposit and access quality data from both sources quickly and easily.
Read more about the partnership
ICDD
The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) manages the curation, publication and distribution of X-ray powder diffraction data.
The CCDC and ICDD partnership enables the ICDD to calculate and publish diffraction patterns (including atomic co-ordinates) from selected structures found in the CSD into the PDF-5+ database to support rapid phase identification.
Read more about the partnership
Worldwide Protein Data Bank (PDB)
The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) organization manages the PDB archive, the worldwide repository of information about the 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. It ensures that the PDB is freely and publicly available to the global community.
The CCDC has a long history of collaboration with the wwPDB members which include RCSB PDB, PDBj, BMRB, PDBe. One example of this can be seen in the PDB’s ligand validation pipeline for newly deposited structures which incorporates information from the CSD through Mogul.
Read more about Mogul to validate your experimental or predicted structures
Pesticide Properties Database
The PPDB was developed at the University of Hertfordshire’s Agriculture and Environment Research Unit. It provides data on the chemical identity, physicochemical, human health, and ecotoxicological properties of pesticides to assist in risk assessments and risk management.
Since 2020 the Cambridge Structural Database has had recriprocal links to the PPDB, allowing scientists to easily jump from the PPDB entry to the CSD entry, and vice-versa, to get a complete picture of these structures.
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UK Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI)
The PSDI project aims to create policies and best practices to make its data resources trustworthy and AI-ready.
This will enable federated data services that integrate diverse datasets for advancing physical sciences research.
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