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Crystallography Open Database
An open collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals, as CIF files.
What Crystallography Open Database is
An open collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals, as CIF files.
Query it here
The research agent queries Crystallography Open Database directly — no account, no API key — and every answer links back to the record it came from. Ask in plain language and it writes the query.
Questions
Can I search Crystallography Open Database without writing code?
Yes. The research agent queries Crystallography Open Database directly, with no account or API key, and cites the record behind every answer. Ask in plain language — for a gene, a protein, a compound or a study — and it builds the query for you.
Can I reuse data from Crystallography Open Database?
Public domain (CC0) for the structures. Cite the structure's original publication, given in each CIF. Terms: https://www.crystallography.net/cod/