Mercury 1.0 - Crystal Structure Visualisation

 Free Software for Crystal Structure Visualisation
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 The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is pleased to
 announce the release of version 1.0 of its new crystal structure
 visualiser program Mercury.
 Mercury forms part of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
 System, and will be shipped to subscribers in October 2001. However,
 we are also making Mercury available for anyone to download from the
 CCDC website, completely free of charge, as a service to the
 crystallographic and computational chemistry communities.
 Supported on Windows, Linux Intel, Solaris and SG IRIX operating
 systems, Mercury offers comprehensive facilities for visualising
 crystal structures in three dimensions, including:
     * full range of structure display styles, view
       directions, colours and structure manipulations
     * location and display of hydrogen bonding and other
       short contacts
     * ability to build and visualise a network of contacts
     * packing diagrams of single and multiple cell contents
     * measurement and display of geometrical parameters
     * display of centroids, least-squares mean planes and
       Miller planes
     * ability to generate and display slices through a
       crystal in any direction
 Additionally, Mercury offers;
     * downloading of hit lists from ConQuest [*]
     * browsing of the entire CSD or of in-house databases [*]
     * import of structures in other formats
     * the ability to save displays
 [*] only available if the CSD System is already installed
 We invite you to download Mercury from CCDC's website, use it, and feed
 back any comments that you have to us at: support %-% at %-% ccdc.cam.ac.uk
 Enhancement and development of Mercury will go on, guided by your
 feedback, and new updates will be made available for download.
 Please do tell others about Mercury - we'd like the program to be used
 as widely as possible. If you already subscribe to the CSD System, there
 is no need to wait until your October release arrives!
 You can find further details of Mercury, and links to download, at
     http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/prods/mercury/
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 Dr Ian Bruno, CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ, UK
 Feedback and Support: support %-% at %-% ccdc.cam.ac.uk