Dear PANalytical HighScore (Plus) User:

1.	Purpose:

The COD database file you find here is meant to be used with versions 4.x of the HighScore or HighScore Plus software packages from Malvern Panalytical.

ATTENTION:
This database can NOT be used with previous versions (1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2x, 3.0a-e) 
of this software. Download the archived files from 2014 for use with version 3.0e. 

2.	 Procedure:

a)	Download the file ‘COD19_HS4x.hsrdb‘ from the COD archive and put
it in a folder of choice. 
(It is recommended to put such a database file NOT on the C: drive.)

b)	Announce the new database for use in the HighScore software.
Use the ‘Customize, Manage Databases, Add HighScore database...’ 
function or the ‘Search for databases’ function.

3.	Details  

The file ‘COD2019_HS4x.hsrdb’ contains a total of 411665 calculated reference patterns. 
This conversion is based on revision cod-rev219367-2019.10.15.zip
of the original COD from October 2019.

The reference patterns are subdivided into 4 subfiles:

a)	User Organic		335,233 patterns (C-H bond present in CIF)
b)	User Inorganic	  76,432 patterns (all other CIFs)
c)	Metallic	  	    9,499patterns (only metals present in CIF)
d)	User Mineral	 	  14,045 patterns (mineral name is present in CIF)

These 4 subfiles are automatically assigned, depending on criteria tested for each CIF entry. With the introduction of subfiles a separate minerals database file is no longer available.
4.	Changes:

The PANalytical internal database structure is updated. This database file can only be used by HighScore versions 4.x. The number of entries in the COD is still growing fast, mostly in the organic realm.

5.	Hashes:

Filename:		COD19_HS4x.hsrdb
MD5:			d30a6dd2169baf83a6b436eb2010f35f
SHA1:			fafed90f68d5e91faa2117d8e9e1bfc63ab97a07
CRC32:		63e0496c 
Modified time:	23 January 2020, 08:02:29
Created time:	23 January 2020, 09:44:13
File Size:		6,186,951,680 bytes

(The additional files with “.asc” extensions are digital signatures used by the COD administration.)

6.	Citations
Please use the following text, when you publish results achieved with a COD reference or structure database:
Gražulis, S., Daškevič, A., Merkys, A., Chateigner, D., Lutterotti, L., Quirós, M., Serebryanaya, N. R., Moeck, P., Downs, R. T. & LeBail, A. (2012) "Crystallography Open Database (COD): an open-access collection of crystal structures and platform for world-wide collaboration". Nucleic Acids Research 40, D420-D427. 
Grazulis, S., Chateigner, D., Downs, R. T., Yokochi, A. T., Quiros, M., Lutterotti, L., Manakova, E., Butkus, J., Moeck, P. & Le Bail, A. (2009) "Crystallography Open Database – an open-access collection of crystal structures". J. Appl. Cryst. 42, 726-729.

When your research relies only the subset of COD containing mineral data
from the AMCSD (the range 9* datasets), then please cite this original source database:

Downs, R. T. & Hall-Wallace, M. (2003) "The American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database". American Mineralogist 88, 247-250.