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Indiana University Molecular Structure Center

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Overview SCrAPS Reciprocal Net NMI

Overview About Server Instructions Data in the server Submitting Samples User Manual Guide to New Interface SHORTEP Formula Abbreviations NPS Instruction Summary XTEL Program Library SHELX How to Access the Cambridge Structional Database(CSD) CSD Documentation Video Tutorials

Overview Browse Search What Will I Find? History of Crystal Data Server Educational Resource Example Page

Overview XMView Beowulf Rendering JaMM ORTEP RasMol/Chime Rotate 3D Applet

Overview Shape and Forms Isometric Crystal System Morphology of a sugar crystal Xmorph Applet

Overview Reciprocal Net Molecular Visualization Remote Access to Instrumentation Collaboratory System High Speed Data Transport and Strage Cluster Computing

Overview Crystallography Links IU Links Video Tutorials

SCXRD Submission
PXRD Submission
Reserve Instrument

Facility Status
Instrument Bay 1L	INACTIVE
Instrument Bay 1R	IN-USE
Instrument Bay 2	IN-USE
Instrument Bay 3	IN-USE
Instrument Bay 4	IN-USE
Computing Lab	C433/C631

Crystallographic Societies and Collaborating Beamlines

Crystallography Internet Resources

International Union of Crystallography(IUCR)
American Crystallographic Association
- Service Crystallography SIG of the ACA
- Small Molecules SIG of the ACA
sci.techniques.xtallography newsgroup

Databases and Sources

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC)
The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
The The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) from the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics
- Molecules R US PDB query from the NIH

Sources for public domain and/or mostly free software

ORTEP III, thermal ellipsoid plot program
Xoom from Steffen Weber
RasMol, Molecular Visualization Freeware
Chime browser plugin from MDL Information Systems
SINCRIS library of software for crystallography
JMol, an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D

Useful Data for Crystallographers

Atomic Radii Tables
Periodic Table from Los Alamos National Laboratory
WebElements Periodic Table
Chemicool Periodic Table

Growing Crystals

Crystal Growing Tips by Paul Boyle

Teaching Aids

Diffraction Physics (University of Würzburg)
Elements Database, Periodic Table

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