Crystallography Open Database

Open-access collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organics compounds and minerals, excluding biopolymers.

Including data and software from CrystalEye, developed by Nick Day at the department of Chemistry, the University of Cambridge under supervision of Peter Murray-Rust.

All data on this site have been placed in the public domain by the contributors.

News

2021-03-01 Malvern Panalytical publishes a new release of their free, COD-derived search-match database. The new COD database file is meant to be used with all versions 4.x and 5.x of the PANalytical HighScore (Plus) software packages. It can be downloaded as one (6.5 GB) database file in .HSRDB format from the archive and is ready for use.Read more

Currently there are 469269 entries in the COD.
Latest deposited structure: 4518519 on 2021-03-03 at 20:06:51 UTC

CIFs Donators

Advisory Board

Daniel Chateigner,
Xiaolong Chen,
Marco Ciriotti,
Robert T. Downs,
Saulius Gražulis,
Werner Kaminsky,
Armel Le Bail,
Luca Lutterotti,
Yoshitaka Matsushita,
Andrius Merkys,
Peter Moeck,
Peter Murray-Rust,
Miguel Quirós Olozábal,
Hareesh Rajan,
Alexandre F.T. Yokochi

If you find bugs in the COD or have any feedback, please contact us at
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Acknowledgements

The COD database is currently used for the SOLSA project and has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 689868

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