The Cambridge Structural Database on CD-ROM

R. Scott Rowland, David Watson and Frank Allen at the CSD Workshop in Atlanta.

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center has released the 3D Graphics Version of the CSD System on CD-ROM. This is available for both UNIX and VMS platforms. The UNIX version will run on Silicon Graphics, Sun, RS/6000, and DEC Alpha machines. Both the UNIX and VMS versions can be searched directly from the CD-ROM. The CD-ROM also contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the User Manual in hypertext format.

The April 1994 Release has the following new features:

• 5557 New entries.
• 4184 Corrected entries.
• 1828 Entries from the Protein Data Bank (no coordinates).
• VISTA - a new software package linked to QUEST for interactive statistical analysis of hits.

The CSD System is distributed to academic users worldwide through National/Regional Affiliated Centers. A list of these Centers has appeared in the IUCr Newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 2, p. 19. The list includes the Japanese National Affiliated Center at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565. Japanese academic users should continue to use this Center and not the Japanese Association for Chemical Information (JAICI) as stated on p. 26 of the IUCr Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 1. All Centers are supplied with the CD-ROM version at no additional cost to the annual subventions which cover the distribution of an unlimited number of copies of the CSD System to academic users in a geographic area. To date over 250 CD-ROM copies were distributed worldwide.

Industrial users wishing to access the CSD System should contact the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center directly Tel.: 44-223-336408, FAX: 44-223-336033. In Japan they should apply to JAICI, Dr S. Tokizane, Tel.: 81-3-5978-3601, FAX: 81-3-5978-3600.