Crystallography Education Web Sites

Compiled by Katherine Kantardjieff and Virginia Pett

Updated 6/06

 

Learning Crystallography

Crystallographic CourseWare by Margaret Kastner
Symmetry and Space Group Tutorial
(Jerry P. Jasinski and Bruce M. Foxman. Also available at http://people.brandeis.edu/~foxman1/teaching/indexpr.html)
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) teaching pamphlets
Kevin Cowtan's Book of Fourier and The Interactive Structure Factor Tutorial
Isomorphous Replacement (a splendid site maintained by Ian Tickle and Huub Driessen)
MAD Phasing (Ethan Merritt's BSC site at Washington U. School of Medicine)
Difference Patterson Tutorial (Charles Brenner, Thomas Jefferson University)
Courses in Crystallography (at Birkbeck College)
Bragg's Law of Diffraction (change the wavelength, or distance, and see what happens)
Crystallography 101 by Bernard Rupp (excellent website maintained at LLNL)

Teaching Crystallography
Teaching Mineralogy with Crystal Structure Databases and Visualization Software
X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction
(by Neder and Proffen)
Animations of Physical Processes
The Point Group Tutorial: Software for Chemical Education
How to see in stereo
CCP14 Homepage - Includes: Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction - Methods, Problems and Solutions - Powder Diffraction Structure Solution Pathways - Solving an Organic Structure (Cimetidine) from Powder Diffraction Data.
CHEM 832 : Solid State Structural Methods
YSU Structure Center
Snow Crystals
The Molecular Structure of Green Fluorescent Protein

Crystallography Resources

Sincris Information Server for Crystallography (biology, chemistry, minerology, physics, diffraction theory, software, laboratories, etc)
Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database and the NASA Archive for Protein Crystal Growth Data (version 2.00)
The RCSB Protein Databank (PDB)
The Scripps Research Institute Metalloprotein Database and Browser
The Nucleic Acid Database
The Entrez Browser at the National Center for Biotechnology Information
IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
HIV Protease Database
Cambridge Structural Database

Education
Crystallographic Tutorials (Mike Sawayas)
High-resolution Protein Refinement Tutorial using SHELXL (Thomas Schneider)
Twinning Tutorial (Regine Herbst-Irmer)
Refinement of Disorder with SHELXL (Peter Meuller)
Smell Database
The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements
ICE Institute for Chemical Education
ChemConnections modules available
WebElements periodic table of the elements
Journal of Chemical Education Online
NCUR - National Conferences on Undergraduate Research
The Chemistry Place
ThinkQuest, ThinkQuest Junior, Tomorrow's Teachers - design education Web sites
The Why Files
ChemLinks Homepage
Databases

 

 

 

 

 

 

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