Sponsor
This research is funded by a grant (No. MIP-124/2010) from the Research Council of Lithuania. Funding for open access charge: the Research Council of Lithuania grant (MIP-124/2010).
Published In
Nucleic Acids Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-8-2012
Subjects
Crystallography -- Databases, Open access publishing
Abstract
Using an open-access distribution model, the Crystallography Open Database (COD, http://www.crystallography.net) collects all known 'small molecule / small to medium sized unit cell' crystal structures and makes them available freely on the Internet. As of today, the COD has aggregated ~150,000 structures, offering basic search capabilities and the possibility to download the whole database, or parts thereof using a variety of standard open communication protocols. A newly developed website provides capabilities for all registered users to deposit published and so far unpublished structures as personal communications or pre-publication depositions. Such a setup enables extension of the COD database by many users simultaneously. This increases the possibilities for growth of the COD database, and is the first step towards establishing a world wide Internet-based collaborative platform dedicated to the collection and curation of structural knowledge.
DOI
10.1093/nar/gkr900
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9313
Citation Details
Gražulis, S., Daškevič, A., Merkys, A., Chateigner, D., Lutterotti, L., Quirós, M., & ... Le Bail, A. (2012). Crystallography Open Database (COD): an open-access collection of crystal structures and platform for world-wide collaboration.
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Copyright The Author(s) 2011. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.