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Crystallography Open Database – an open-access collection of crystal structures
Journal of Applied Crystallography
  • Saulius Grazulis, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Daniel Chateigner, University of Caen Lower Normandy
  • Robert T. Downs, University of Arizona
  • A. F. T. Yokochi, Oregon State University
  • Miguel Quirós, Universidad de Granada
  • Luca Lutterotti, University of Trento
  • Elena Manakova, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Justas Butkus, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Peter Moeck, Portland State University
  • Armel Le Bail, Université du Maine
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Subjects
  • Crystallography -- Data processing,
  • Crystallography -- Databases -- Design and construction,
  • Crystals -- Structure
Abstract

The Crystallography Open Database (COD), which is a project that aims to gather all available inorganic, metal–organic and small organic molecule structural data in one database, is described. The database adopts an openaccess model. The COD currently contains 80,000 entries in crystallographic information file format, with nearly full coverage of the International Union of Crystallography publications, and is growing in size and quality.

Description

Originally published in the Journal of Applied Crystallography (ISSN 0021-8898) in 2009, and may be found at http://journals.iucr.org/j/

This article is dedicated to Michael Berndt.

Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16068
Citation Information
Gražulis, Saulius, Daniel Chateigner, Robert T. Downs, A. F. T. Yokochi, Miguel Quirós, Luca Lutterotti, Elena Manakova, Justas Butkus, Peter Moeck, and Armel Le Bail. "Crystallography Open Database–an open-access collection of crystal structures." Journal of Applied Crystallography 42, no. 4 (2009): 726-729.