CPD News Index

Collaborative Computational Project Number 14 for Single Crystallography and Powder Diffraction (CCP14)

The CCP14 is continuing in its efforts to provide freely available crystallographic resources to academics . Recently, significant numbers of crystallographic software packages have being updated or created with GUIs (graphical user interfaces), making them highly suited suited for teaching people new to X-ray and neutron diffraction.

Present CCP14 initiatives include:

• Auto-mirroring of Crystallographic Software, Information and Resources
• Auto-mirroring of Source Code, Algorithms, free C and Fortran compilers and GUI development kits; wxWindows, Tcl/Tk, etc.
• Growing list of tutorials, run throughs and help files for people who make use of single crystal and powder diffraction.

Examples of freely available software auto-mirrored at the CCP14 web site include

• WinGX Single Crystal Suite/GUI Ortep/GUI Struplo/WinPlaton - by Louis Farrugia of Glasgow University
• Powder Cell Powder Diffraction Pattern Calculation and Unit-cell Refinement- by Werner Kraus & Gert Nolze
• XFIT for Win95 Peak Profiling - by Alan Coelho and Bob Cheary
• Rietveld Software and Viewers; GSAS. Fullprof, Rietan, XRS-82, XND, Koalariet, Simref, BGMN, LHPM/Rietica95, etc.

Crystallographic Nexus CD-ROM - Virtual Internet and Software Library on CD-ROM for Laboratories Isolated from the Internet

CCP14 is presently producing the Crystallographic Nexus Virtual Internet and Software Library on CD-ROM for laboratories in countries without adequate Internet access. Subject to available resources, the CCP14 will provide a free crystallographic Nexus CD-ROM via air-mail on request to laboratories without the ability to access the CCP14 site via normal internet connections.