Cambridge Structural Database System

This is the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) System software distribution site for the following UC campuses: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Cruz. Questions regarding access to CSD software should be directed to UC campus contacts.

Useful Links

Select your campus below to obtain site and confirmation codes that will be needed to register the product after it is installed.

       Berkeley (UCB)
       Los Angeles (UCLA)
       Merced (UCM)
       Riverside (UCR)
       Santa Cruz (UCSC)
       San Diego (UCSD)

CAUTION!! The complete packages are over 3 Gigabytes in size.

Windows

MacOSX

Linux/Unix

Current
Version
2013

Cambridge Structural Database System for Windows 2013 Release (one DVD ISO, requires 4 GB of disk space)

Windows DVD ISO
or
3GB Zip file

Contents: ConQuest 1.15, Mercury CSD 3.1, PC Vista, PreQuest, Mogul 1.5, IsoStar 2.2 PC Client and all database files.

Optional: Superstar 2.1, Goldsuite 5.1, DASH 3.3.1.

Cambridge Structural Database System for Mac OSX 2013 Release (one DVD ISO, requires 4 GB of disk space)

MacOSX DVD ISO

Contents: ConQuest 1.15, Mercury CSD 3.1, Vista, PreQuest, and Mogul 1.5 and IsoStar 2.2 Client and all database files.

Cambridge Structural Database System for Linux/Unix 2013 Release (one DVD ISO, requires 4 GB of disk space)

Linux DVD ISO

Contents: ConQuest 1.15, Mercury 3.1, Vista, PreQuest, Mogul 1.5, IsoStar 2.2 Client, IsoStar data and server software and all database files.

Optional: Superstar 2.1, Goldsuite 5.1.

Please read before downloading and using the Cambridge Structural Database

4.4 The CSD (Cambridge Structural Database) and CSD System (including downloaded data, manuals, results, and printed products) shall be used exclusively for the purpose of scientific teaching and research, which may include research such as, for example into drug development or drug modifications capable of commercial exploitation. The results of such research may be published through the normal academic channels, subject to the inclusion of a proper acknowledgement to the CCDC (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre) (see Part IV of the Schedule to this Agreement).

Part IV Acknowledgements
The following references should be quoted in all publications based on this License of Access:
The CSD System: The Cambridge Structural Database: A quarter of a million crystal structures and rising F.H. Allen, Acta Cryst. (2002), B58, 380-388

ConQuest: New software for searching the Cambridge Structural Database and visualizing crystal structures I.J. Bruno, J.C. Cole, P.R. Edgington, M. Kessler, C.F. Macrae, P McCabe, J. Pearson, R. Taylor, Acta Cryst. (2002), B58, 389-397

Mercury: Mercury: visualization and analysis of crystal structures C.F. Macrae, P.R. Edgington, P McCabe, E. Pidcock, G.P. Shields, R. Taylor, M. Towler, J. van de Streek, J. Appl. Cryst. (2006), 39-3, 453-457

IsoStar: A library of information about nonbonded interactions I.J. Bruno, J. Cole, J. P. M. Lommerse, R.S. Rowland, R. Taylor, M. Verdonk, Journal of Computer Aided Molecular Design (1997), 11-6, 525-537

Mogul: Retrieval of crystallographically derived molecular geometry information I.J. Bruno, et al Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (2005), 44-6, 2133-2144

SuperStar: A knowledge-based approach for identifying interaction sites in proteins M.L. Verdonk, J.C. Cole, R. Taylor, Journal of Molecular Biology (1999), 289, 1093-1108