Notice
The Cambridge Structural Database on CD-ROM
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.