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Cambridge Structural Database System

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

Useful Links

CAUTION!! The complete packages are several Gigabytes in size. You will need the site and confirmation codes to register the product after it is installed and for the quarterly updates issued by Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.

 

Windows

MacOSX

Linux/Unix

Current
Version
2009
Cambridge Structural Database System for Windows 2009 Release (one DVD ISO, requires 3.6GB of disk space)
Contents: ConQuest 1.11, Mercury CSD 2.2, PC Vista, PreQuest, Mogul 1.1.3, IsoStar 2.1 PC Client and all database files.
Cambridge Structural Database System for Mac OSX 2009 Release (one DVD ISO, requires 3.7GB of disk space)
Contents: ConQuest 1.11, Mercury CSD 2.2, Vista, PreQuest, and Mogul 1.1.3 and IsoStar 2.1 Client and all database files.
Cambridge Structural Database System for Linux/Unix 2009 Release (one DVD ISO, requires 3.6GB of disk space)
Contents: ConQuest, Mercury, Vista, PreQuest, Mogul, IsoStar Client, IsoStar data and server software and all database files.

 

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


Useful Links:

  1. User manuals (online documentation)
  2. Cambridge Structural Database Home Page
  3. Cambridge Structural Database System Components
  4. CSD Quarterly Updates
 


Please contact UC Technical Contact if you have any problems with this page.
Last updated Feb-09