CCP14 IN POWDER AND SINGLE-CRYSTAL DIFFRACTION. A. J. Holland - Daresbury Laboratory, U.K.

The aim of CCP14 is to develop an integrated and user-friendly suite of powder and single-crystal diffraction programs for data acquisition, data analysis and presentation of results. The CCP14 project commenced in 1994 and a project Steering Committee was formed. The first release of the CCP14 suite in March 1995 included a small number of good quality powder programs covering peak-fitting, autoindexing, Rietveld refinement, the GSAS package and the MOTPLOT program for profile manipulation and display. The CCP14 suite and the associated manual are available free of charge to academic users by means of anonymous FTP.

The EPDIC4 (Chester, U.K.) and SDPD (Oxford, U.K.) meetings in 1995 provided an opportunity to publicise CCP14 to a wide audience of potential users, whose comments have helped in the subsequent development of the suite. Work has begun to develop some of the "linking software" to allow programs to run smoothly in series, transforming CCP14 from a simple program library into a truly integrated suite. Two new releases of CCP14 are planned for 1996, and work has begun to build up the single-crystal element of the suite.

CCP14 exists to serve the academic powder and single-crystal communities and the Steering Committee is keen to hear from as many users as possible as to how exactly they think CCP14 can best serve their interests. Questions, suggestions and contributions of software to the CCP14 suite are very welcome and interested parties should contact the CCP14 secretary, Dr. A. J. Holland, by e-mail at "A.J.Holland@dl.ac.uk". Further information about CCP14 is available on the World Wide Web at "http://www.dl.ac.uk/CCP/CCP14".