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X-ray Crystallography
University of Oxford

Links for students

• Paul Boyle's Crystal Growing for Students

Crystallographic Organisations

• The International Union of Crystallography
• TheBritish Crystallographic Association
• The American Crystallographic Association
• The IUCr Commission on Computing
• The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
• Links for Chemists.

Other Crystallography Groups

• Laboratory for Chemical Crystallography,
  Department of Chemistry
  at the University of Basel
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratories
• Crystallography Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.
• Crystallography Research at Brandeis University.

Other Useful Utilities

• Mercury & Encifer
  Programs from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre for viewing and manipulating cif files
• Irfanview
  Program for viewing and manipulating enhanced metafiles
• GhostScript & Ghostview
  Programsuite for viewing and manipulating postscript files
• Printcif
  Webserver for converting cif tabular data (atoms, bonds etc) into pdf tables
• PLATON
  Extensive program for computing almost everything from a cif file