Dear PANalytical HighScore (Plus) User:

1.	Purpose:

The COD database file you find here is meant to be used with 
version 3.0a or higher of the PANalytical HighScore or 
HighScore Plus software packages.

ATTENTION:
This database can NOT be used with previous versions (1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0) 
of this software.

2.	 Procedure:

* Install the database file (CODJanuary2012.hsrdb) on your PC by the
  PANalytical installation procedure
	- or -
  simply copy this file from the DVD onto your hard disk or a memory stick.
You better ‘Defragment’ your disk before putting such a large file on it.

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

3.	Details

The file ‘CODJanuary2012.hsrdb’ contains a total of 151033 calculated reference patterns. 
The reference patterns are subdivided into 4 subfiles:

a)	User Organic		121134 patterns (C-H bond present in CIF)
b)	User Inorganics	  29899 patterns (all other CIFs)
c)	Metallic	  	    1678 patterns (only metals present in CIF)
d)	User Mineral	 	  14741 patterns (mineral name is present in CIF)

These 4 subfiles properties are automatically assigned, especially the Minerals subfile 
is far from perfect due to the "mineral" names given to the CIF datasets in the original COD.

With the introduction of subfiles a separate minerals database file is no longer available.

4.	Changes:

A bug with all space groups with two possible origin choices has been solved. 
All reference patterns and standardized structure data from these space groups are now correct.

Many thanks to Petr Bezdicka from Czechia for spotting this one!

5.	Citation

Please use the following text, when you publish results achieved with a COD reference database:
COD reference database 2012:
Gražulis, S.; Chateigner, D.; Downs, R. T.; Yokochi, A. F. T.; Quirós, M.; Lutterotti, L.; Manakova, E.; Butkus, J.; Moeck, P. & Le Bail, A.; Crystallography Open Database - an open-access collection of crystal structures, J. Appl. Cryst., 2009, 42, 726-729.

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

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