Collaborative Computational Project Number 14 (CCP14) For Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction (Freely Available Crystallographic Software for Students and Academia)

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IUCr linked Educational Resources

• http://www.iucr.org/cww-top/edu.index.html

Crystallography in Lay persons terms

• What is Crystallography - Careers in Crystallography

• Kevin Cowtan's Book of Fourier - Includes
  • Book of Crystallography
  • Duck Tales and missing data
  • A little Animal Magic and cross phasing
  • Animal Liberation and free-sets

• Randy Read's Protein Crystallography Course

For Primary and High School Students

• Crystal Growing for Students

• Kevin Cowtan's Book of Fourier - Includes
  • Book of Crystallography
  • Duck Tales and missing data
  • A little Animal Magic and cross phasing
  • Animal Liberation and free-sets

• Knowhere - Discover how the structure of space determines the shape of things
  • Polymorf construction set toy

Crystallographic Resources

• Teaching Guide: X-ray and Neutron Diffraction - Proffen and Neder - Includes
  • Department of Crystallography, Munich, Germany, Mirror
  • Basic examples
  • Reciprocal space
  • Convolution theorem
  • Modification of a structure
  • The crystallographic phase problem
  • Solving a simple structure
  • Anomalous scattering
  • Powder diffraction
  • Diffuse scattering & defect structures
  • Mirror Sites: [Germany] | [Australia] | [USA] | [Canada] | [Germany] | [UK] | [Korea]

• BNL Structural Biology - Links to:
  • Introduction to Crystallography
  • Bob Sweet's X-Ray Optics Lecture
  • Rotation Geometery
  • Direct Phase Determination by use of Three-Beam Diffraction
  • Escher Web Sketch: A Fun Java Symmetry Applet
  • The Interactive Structure Factor Tutorial
  • XRayView: a virtual X-Ray crystallography laboratory
  • Symmetry Equivalent Positions Generator
  • Ethan Merritt's data about anomalous scatterers: numbers and graphs

• Crystallography 101 - Includes
  • Experimental Setup (Håkon Hope's Cryo-Notes)
  • About Symmetry and Space Groups
  • Structure Factors and Phase Problem
  • Phasing Techniques

• Discovering Symmetry

• Crystal Lattice Structures

• An Interactive Course on Symmetry and Analysis of Crystal Structure by Diffraction including:
  • Escher Web Sketch (Spacegroup Game/Educational playtoy)
  • Reciprocal Lattice Calculator
  • Laue Diagram Simulator

• Growing Crystals
• Software and On-Line Resources for Crystallography Education - Marcus R. Bond - Includes
  • Crystallography under Linux
  • Crystallography under DOS
  • Instructional X-ray Data Sets
• Kevin Cowtan's Book of Fourier - Includes
  • Book of Crystallography
  • Duck Tales and missing data
  • A little Animal Magic and cross phasing
  • Animal Liberation and free-sets
• Strategies in Structure Determinations from Powder Data - Armel LeBail - Includes
  • First routine contact with a material a priori unknown
  • Materials unidentified by the routine approach
  • The structure determination from powder data is decided
  • Trends in structure determination from powder data in February 1997
  • Alternative when no crystal of suitable size is available?
• Crystallographic Topology 101 - Carroll K. Johnson and Michael N. Burnett - Includes
  • Introduction to Orbifolds
  • Introduction to Critical Nets
  • Critical Nets on Orbifolds
  • Lattice Complexes on Critical Nets on Orbifolds
  • Cubic Space Group / Subgroup Families
• Fundamentals of powder diffraction - Includes
  • Web Accessible Diffractometer Homepage
  • GeoGarden
• X-Ray diffraction education from UCSD, San Diego - Includes
  • Introduction to Diffraction
  • How Diffraction Works
  • Crystals
  • Other Techniques in Diffraction
• Spectroscopy education from UCSD, San Diego - Includes
  • Introduction to Spectroscopy and Polarization
  • Light Absorption
  • Molecular Wavefunction
  • Relating Spectroscopy to the Wavefunction
  • Spectroscopic Effects
  • Types of Spectroscopy
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

• The Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet - Includes
  • Brookhaven Mirror
  • Course Material
  • Noticeboard
  • Assignments
  • Technology
  • Discussion Lists
  • Participants
  • Glossary
• Cryocrystallography video - The Application of Low Temperature Crystallographic Techniques
  • Web site promoting 43 minute video (includes MPEG movie clips)
  • Production of Freezing Equipment
  • Liquid Nitrogen and Cryostats
  • Preparation of Crystals for Freezing
  • Freezing the Crystals
  • Storing Frozen Crystals
  • Assessing the Effectiveness of the Freeze
  • Examples of Data
  • Credits and References
• High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Tutorial Paul A. Heiney, University of Pennsylvania - Includes -
  • Introduction
  • Other Links
  • What is X-ray diffraction (XRD)
  • X-ray Sources
  • Instrumentation for XRD: Diffractometers and Detectors
  • Case Studies
  • Examples of Data
  • Credits and References
• "Pepinsky's Machine" distribution for UNIX. (Glykos, N.M. (1999), "Pepinsky's Machine : an interactive, graphics-based Fourier synthesis program with applications in teaching and research.", J. Appl. Crystallogr., 32, 821-823. )

• On-Line Brief Teaching Edition of Patterson Peaks Donald L. Ward, Michigan State University - Includes -
  • Information about the Patterson Peaks table
  • Patterson Peaks tables for selected space groups
  • Patterson Peaks Homepage
• Difference Patterson Tutorial Charles Brenner -
  • Preliminary comments
  • You must remember this
  • Lessons taken at home
  • The Patterson function
  • Cells, coordinates and vectors
  • Your first Patterson solution
• Excel Fourier Spreadsheet Max R Taylor, The Flinders University of South Australia - Includes -
  • Guide on using the spreadsheet
  • Spreadsheet files.
• Computational Techniques in Crystallography Lecture Course by H. D. Flack, University of Geneva - Includes -
  • Minimization techniques for experimental data
  • Modelling of experimental data
  • Statistical descriptors
  • Diffractometry
  • Electron-density calculations
  • Geometry and lattice calculations
  • Informatics
  • Higher-dimensional crystallography
  • Treatment of non-centrosymmetric structures
  • Supplementary Material

• Stefan Weber's Quasicrystal Homepage - Including DOS based Software
• Ron Lifshitz's Quasi Crystals Web Page at Caltech
• Crystallographic Nexus - Free Virtual Internet/Virtual World Wide Web on CD-ROM for the remote crystallographer