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The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising

Frank H. Allen · Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science · 2002

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Frank H. Allen
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Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
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2002
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English

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The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) now contains data for more than a quarter of a million small-molecule crystal structures. The information content of the CSD, together with methods for data acquisition, processing and validation, are summarized, with particular emphasis on the chemical information added by CSD editors. Nearly 80% of new structural data arrives electronically, mostly in CIF format, and the CCDC acts as the official crystal structure data depository for 51 major journals. The CCDC now maintains both a CIF archive (more than 73,000 CIFs dating from 1996), as well as the distributed binary CSD archive; the availability of data in both archives is discussed. A statistical survey of the CSD is also presented and projections concerning future accession rates indicate that the CSD will contain at least 500,000 crystal structures by the year 2010.

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Allen, F. H. (2002). The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising. https://doi.org/10.1107/s0108768102003890

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Allen, Frank H. "The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising." 2002. https://doi.org/10.1107/s0108768102003890.

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Allen, F. H. 2002, The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising, Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, available at: https://doi.org/10.1107/s0108768102003890 [Accessed 8 Aug. 2026].

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Title
The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising
Author / contributors
Frank H. Allen
Publisher
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
Publication year
2002
Language
English

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Quarter (Canadian coin); Database; Accession; Statistical survey; Computer science; Binary number; Library science; History; Archaeology; Arithmetic; Statistics; Mathematics
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