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Re: [sdpd] Seminars raining about SDPD

> All these commercial efforts for a so small market is quite
> impressive ! All these workshops supposed to form so many new
> experts ! As a conclusion, I will look for a clear increase in the
> number of published SDPDs this year or the next one... unless
> routine will not be at the rendez-vous once again.

This is an interesting point - are you sure your database
of structures solved from Powder diffraction is up to date
and might not be missing some organic style journals?

When you compare the graph at:
  http://www.cristal.org/iniref.html 

With the numbers of structures submitted into the
Cambridge database:
  http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/about/annrep99/Report.html

There does seem to be a miss-match here.

One point is whether the literature is missing a big
proportion of structures that don't make it to press?

If you look at the beam-line 9.8 micro-crystal
diffraction webpage (for when your powder is really
a collection of small single crystals) - run by 
Simon Teat at Daresbury Lab:

  http://srs.dl.ac.uk/xrd/9.8/

  82 publications so far in 3.5 years (35 publications in 1999)
  But is is estimated by Simon Teat that the Bruker CCD on 9.8
   has solved around 1000 to 1500 structures in its
   so far quite recent history.

> Programs and fast demos at workshop are not sufficient in 
> SDPD matters, however you will find a list of competitor (some
> freeware) programs at :
> http://www.cristal.org/iniref/progmeth.html#n7

Minor self citation alert:  
 Notes for the Bayreuth Powder Diffraction Workshop are
  on-line:
  Freely Available Software tools to aid in Structure Solution 
  from Powder Diffraction
    http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/poster-talks/powd2000/ 

(I recommend downloading the MS-Word file and printing
4 pages per page (as per the print options) - not 
perusing the MS generated HTML)

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Though before you can solve with all these new 
solution tools - you still have to index and 
assign a cell - or is this still considered an
after-thought?

Lachlan.

-- 
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
    for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction
Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD U.K
Tel: +44-1925-603703  Fax: +44-1925-603124
E-mail: l.cranswick...@dl.ac.uk  Ext: 3703  Room C14
                           http://www.ccp14.ac.uk


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