Commission on Crystallographic Teaching

The Teaching Pamphlets sponsored by the Commission on Crystallographic Teaching are now in their Third Series, and provide tutorials introducing different aspects of symmetry, diffraction techniques, structural science and crystallography. First published as print pamphlets in 1981 in association with University College Cardiff Press, they are now freely available on the Web for the use of instructors and individuals.

24th November 2009

• Add Teaching Commission Newsletter No. 3/Compcomm Newsletter No.

3rd July 2004 - thank you to all those who submitted their ideas and all submissions received are still viewable

Crystallographic educational links

• Via the IUCr Website
  • IUCr Original (UK)
  • Australian Mirror
  • French Mirror
  • Israeli Mirror
  • Japanese Mirror
  • South African Mirror

This collection contains source code for crystallographic programs that are either no longer actively maintained or have a version archived at a significant point in its historical development. Note that many of them (especially ones with graphic output) will not work without considerable modification to fit the requirements of modern compilers and libraries.

• CCP14 (Collaborative Computational Project Number 14 for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction):
  • Homesite: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk
  • Software Mirrors: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/mirror/
  • Software Tutorials: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/tutorial/
  • Solutions, Operating Systems and Lists of Software Types: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/solution/
  • Maths and Algorithms:

• A Crystallographic Benchmark Supported by the San Diego Supercomputer Center: http://www.sdsc.edu/Xtal/Bm/bm.html
• CCP14: Recommended Crystallographic Client Computer and Operating System (small molecule single crystal and powder diffraction): http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/solution/xtalcomputer/

Every three years the Commission runs a Crystallographic Computing School at IUCr Congress. 

Since 2010, the Phenix group (mainly based at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California) has been producing a newsletter with a similar name, but of particular interest to the protein crystallography community; it's available from http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter.

This page is an historical archive of newsletters produced by the IUCr Computing Commission - available as PDF downloads.