Drugs and Powder

A symposium on Powder Diffraction and Computer Simulation of Pharmaceutical Materials was held at Glaxo Wellcome in UK, March 1997. Lecturers discussed procedures for generating trial Structures (R. Hammond), and solving crystal structures from powder diffraction data based on Monte Carlo techniques (K. Harris), an ab-initio approach to produce tens of thousands of possible Structures (F. Leusin), graph sets in the study of hydrogen bonded polymorphic structures (R. Davey), computer simulation of the crystallization process and development of designer molecules (J. Anwar), future introduction of European standards (S. Norval), new Daresbury Laboratory service (S. Maginn), and polymorphic and pseudo polymorphic structures.