Biological structures
Integrating biocrystallography into traditional biology and chemistry curricula, M. Jaskólski. J. Appl. Cryst. (2001), 34, 371–374. This article describes courses developed to teach protein crystallography to biology and chemistry students, including model-building exercises, web tools and educational quizzes.
PDB-101: free resources for teachers, students and the general public, RCSB Protein Data Bank. Resources include Molecule of the Month, teaching materials and guides to understanding Protein Data Bank data.
Community resources
Open Access Crystallography Resource Portal, Peter Moeck and the Nano-Crystallography Group at Portland State University. A portal providing links to open crystallographic databases, software and educational resources.
Crystal growth
Growing X-ray Quality Crystals, P. D. Boyle. Guidance for students and researchers on growing crystals suitable for X-ray structure determination.
Protein Crystallization Starter Kit, Jena Bioscience GmbH. An introduction to protein crystallization using lysozyme.
Crystals and their structures
CrystalViewer, CrystalMaker Software Ltd. Educational software for exploring crystal and molecular structures, with curated reference and teaching libraries.
X-Ray Interactions With Matter, Center for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Data and tools for calculating X-ray interactions with matter.
General crystallography
250 questions to a crystallographer, Gervais Chapuis. Answers to questions on symmetry, diffraction, reciprocal space, crystal chemistry, lattice planes, Miller indices and related topics.
Crystallography for beginners, Martin Martinez-Ripoll. Bilingual English–Spanish material introducing the fundamentals of crystallography.
DECOR: Educational Crystallography Online Resources, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. A collection of educational resources for teaching and learning crystallography.
History
Celebrating Crystallography, The Royal Institution, 12foot6 and STFC. An animated journey through the history of crystallography, narrated by structural biologist Stephen Curry.
The discovery of the molecular structure of DNA: the double helix, Nobel Prize Outreach. A timeline of contributions to understanding the structure of DNA, including Rosalind Franklin’s work.
Virtual Museum of the History of Mineralogy, Paul Tambuyser and Claude Hootelé. Photographs and descriptions of books, instruments, crystal models and other objects illustrating the history of mineralogy and crystallography.
International Tables for Crystallography
The 17 plane groups, IUCr. Diagrams and data for the two-dimensional space groups, as presented in International Tables for Crystallography, Volume A.
Literature
Incoherent neutron scattering from multi-element materials, C. J. Glinka. J. Appl. Cryst. (2011), 44, 618–624.
Teaching with the case study method to promote active learning in a small-molecule crystallography course for chemistry students, M. G. Campbell, T. M. Powers and S.-L. Zheng. J. Chem. Educ. (2016), 93, 270–274.
POLYNET: a teaching program for the plane crystallographic groups, for use on Apple Macintosh computers, S. G. Hoggar. J. Appl. Cryst. (1995), 28, 459.
Three-dimensional periodicity and inversion axes in crystals, B. D. Sharma. J. Appl. Cryst. (1995), 28, 223.
FOURDEM: a program written as an aid to teaching the elements of Fourier synthesis and other crystallographic concepts, T. R. Welberry and K. Owen. J. Appl. Cryst. (1992), 25, 443–447.
An introductory exercise in Fourier synthesis and structure-factor calculation for undergraduates, using an Excel workbook, M. R. Taylor. J. Appl. Cryst. (2000), 33, 975–976.
Jmol: a paradigm shift in crystallographic visualization, R. M. Hanson. J. Appl. Cryst. (2010), 43, 1250–1260.
Optimized schedule for large crystallography meetings, Y. Le Page. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996), 29, 291–295.
Peak decomposition using Pearson type VII function, S. K. Gupta. J. Appl. Cryst. (1998), 31, 474–476.
Teaching diffraction with the aid of computer simulations, R. B. Neder and Th. Proffen. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996), 29, 727–735.
Pepinsky's Machine: an interactive graphics-based Fourier synthesis program with applications in teaching and research, N. M. Glykos. J. Appl. Cryst. (1999), 32, 821–823.
Crystallization bench, B. Cabric and T. Pavlovic. J. Appl. Cryst. (2000), 33, 387–388.
Derivation of the rotation matrix in general rectilinear systems by means of vector and matrix formalism, K. Stróż. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996), 29, 736–737.
Interactive web-based tools for an introductory course in crystallography, G. Chapuis and W. Hardaker. J. Appl. Cryst. (1999), 32, 1164–1168.
Introduction to crystallography: two-dimensional computer simulations, B. D. Hall and T. Stoto. J. Appl. Cryst. (1998), 31, 477–480.
The number of good reflections in a powder pattern, D. S. Sivia. J. Appl. Cryst. (2000), 33, 1295–1301.
Symmetry
CoSyM: Continuous Symmetry Measures, Inbal Tuvi-Arad. Tools for measuring the degree of symmetry, chirality and polyhedral shape.
Interactive PDF files with embedded 3D designs as support material to study the 32 crystallographic point groups, V. Arribas, L. Casas, E. Estop and M. Labrador. Computers & Geosciences (2014), 62, 53–61.