Crystallography Software and Courses

Courtesy of the British Crystallographic Association and Birkbeck College, we offer information about available software for crystallographic study, demonstration and teaching.

Software
- Commercial Programs some with demonstration versions
- Information about available (micro) software, mostly free last updated 5 March 1998
- Programs to Download from here last updated 14 June 2000
- Programs Elsewhere last updated 3 May 2000
- Programs found during BCA Educational Software Survey April 95
- Programs mentioned in Laclan Cranswick's article on crystallographic software published in issue no. 67 of 'Crystallography News' page 25 December 1998
- Programs descriptions published in 'Special software section' of the December 98 and March 99 issues of 'Crystallography News'.
- Programs mentioned in the Report of the IUCr99 Software Fayre
Courses

Internet Courses

Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Birkbeck WWW Protein Structure Course
Advanced certificate in powder diffraction

University of Le Mans, France

SDPD Internet Course Structure Determination by Powder Diffraction

Details of the An Introduction to Structural Bioinformatics course run every year at York.
Other courses, mostly PC based software

CTISS Computers in Teaching Initiative
TLTP Technology in Learning Teaching Projects, initially interactive software for micros, some now moving to Web based teaching.

The TLTP Earth Sciences Consortium is now on the World Wide Web, their modules on Crystallography, Optical Mineralogy and Phase transitions may be of use to BCA members
The TLTP Materials Science project, MATTER, is now on the web with modules related to teaching Crystallography
The TLTP BioNet has programs for teaching biological subjects and some pre-clinical medicine and advice on the teaching on the Web.

Page last updated 15 Aug 2000

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