I would like to recommend the following alternatives to the csd suite for chemical database searches. These are open databases of chemical substances, which you might find bound in your crystals as substrates or ligands. The databases can be downloaded in whole, or they are tied in to PubChem, thus conforming to the principle of public accessibility. Here are the links
http://chembank.broad.harvard.edu/ http://biocyc.org/open-compounds.shtml I learned about these tools on the Blue-obelisk list, which is dedicated to FOSS tools in chemistry. Some of these folks are working on the Wikipedia chemical specification formats or they have agreed to do their scientific work in an open data-sharing environment. Nice work to them! Regards, Michael L. Love Ph.D Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University 725 N. Wolfe Street Room 608B WBSB Baltimore MD 21205-2185 Interoffice Mail: 608B WBSB, SoM office: 410-614-2267 lab: 410-614-3179 fax: 410-502-6910 cell: 443-824-3451 http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ -- Visit proclus realm! http://proclus.tripod.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a+ C++++ UBULI++++$ P+ L+++(++++) E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++@ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-(--)@ b !DI D- G e++++ h--- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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