Useful Links

Useful Web Resources for Crystallography

1. CIF (Crystallographic Information File)
2. Software
3. Graphic Software
4. Database
5. Societies

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CIF (Crystallographic Information File)

• CIF (Crystallographic information file, IUCr site)

• Checkcif (Check and validate *.CIF)

• PrintCIF (Print tables from *.CIF)

• Deposit CIF (Deposit CIF to Cambridge crystallographic database)

• CIF Help (Help with submitting papers)

• Ciffilter (Utility for viewing *.CIF online)

• Core CIF Dictionary (Dictionary for CIF)

• Powder CIF Dictionary (Dictionary for Powder CIF)

• Cif2sx (To generate Shelx.ins file from *.CIF)

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Software 

• Babel (Data format conversion)

• CCP14 web site (Software suite for single crystal and powder diffraction)

• Dirdif for Windows (Louis Farrugia, U. Glasgow)

• Platon  (Ton Spek, Multipurpose crystallographic tool)

• Platon for Windows (L. Farrugia, U. Glasgow)

• SnB - Shake-and-Bake  (Structure solution)

• Shelx (SHELX System of crystallographic programs)

• WinGX  (Crystallographic program system for windows)

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Graphic Software

• Chem-Ray ( Windows graphic program)

• Xtal-3D (A 3D crystal structure VRML generator)

• Struvir (STRUPLO data files to VRML)

• X-Plor  

• Gretep2 (Grenoble thermal ellipsoids plot)

• Povray (Persistence of vision Raytracer plot)

• PovChem (Paul Thiessen's graphics Interface for Pov-ray)

• Ghostview (PostScript viewer)

• Mercury (Visualization and exploration of crystal structures from CIF and other Formats)

• RasMol ( Visualization Program for macromolecules and small molecule )

• Ortep-3 for Windows ( Thermal ellipsoids plot)

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Database

• Cambridge Structural Database
• CSD Documentation
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
• Crystal Lattice Structures
• International Centre for Diffraction Data
• X-ray Scattering Database
• World Database of Crystallographers

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Societies

• International Union of Crystallography
• American Crystallographic Association 
• Service Crystallography SIG  
• American Gem Society
• Mineralogical Society of America
• American Institute of Physics
• European Crystallographic Association
• British Crystallographic Association
• National Science Foundation
• National Institutes of Health
• American Chemical Society
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC)

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