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Crystallography Open Database (COD): an open-access collection of crystal structures and platform for world-wide collaboration

Using an open-access distribution model, the Crystallography Open Database (COD, http://www.crystallography.net) collects all known ‘small molecule / small to medium sized unit cell’ crystal structures and makes them available freely on the Internet. As of today, the COD has aggregated ∼150 000 stru...

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Autores principales: Gražulis, Saulius, Daškevič, Adriana, Merkys, Andrius, Chateigner, Daniel, Lutterotti, Luca, Quirós, Miguel, Serebryanaya, Nadezhda R., Moeck, Peter, Downs, Robert T., Le Bail, Armel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22070882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr900
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Sumario:Using an open-access distribution model, the Crystallography Open Database (COD, http://www.crystallography.net) collects all known ‘small molecule / small to medium sized unit cell’ crystal structures and makes them available freely on the Internet. As of today, the COD has aggregated ∼150 000 structures, offering basic search capabilities and the possibility to download the whole database, or parts thereof using a variety of standard open communication protocols. A newly developed website provides capabilities for all registered users to deposit published and so far unpublished structures as personal communications or pre-publication depositions. Such a setup enables extension of the COD database by many users simultaneously. This increases the possibilities for growth of the COD database, and is the first step towards establishing a world wide Internet-based collaborative platform dedicated to the collection and curation of structural knowledge.