Databases crystal structure data sources

The X-ray crystal structures shown in this article were created with CambridgeSoft s ChemSD Pro 5.0 using coordinates obtained from the source, the CSD (Cambridge Structural Database) or the PDB (Protein Data Bank), or those determined by Paul D. Robinson at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in collaboration with the author. Most of the author s work on boron heterocycles first at SIU and more recently at SRI International (the nonprofit research institute formerly known as the Stanford Research Institute) was funded by NIH grant GM448I9. 

Computational results were obtained using Spartan 08 (Wavefunction Inc., Irvine, CA) and software programs from Accelrys Software Inc. with graphical displays generated by the Discovery Studio Visualizer. Where protein structures have been downloaded from the RCSB Protein Data Bank the full references and PDB IDs have been given. I wish to acknowledge the use of the Chemical Database Service at Daresbury for access to other crystal structures. Again, full primary sources can be found in the references. 

The inorganic equivalent of the CSD is the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) (FIZ 2001 Bergerhoff et al. 1983). This currently contains over 53000 entries (August 2000) with two updates per year, and may be searched in a manner similar to that used for the CSD. There are currently efforts under way to unify the searching software for these two important data bases, a move which would considerably facilitate and widen their use. Another useful source is the inorganic section of the PDF (ICDD 2001 Jenkins and Snyder 1996). For older references, the first two volumes of Groth (1906, 1908) are particularly valuable. 

Figure 4.102 Crystal structure of ribonuclease A with the deamidation site at Asn. (Source Protein Database, Brookhaven National Labs, original data from Esposito et al. [94]).

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