[sdpd] Mercury release

[maginn...@ccdc.cam.ac.uk]

Dear Colleague,

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 out to subscribers as part of the CSD System with the 
October 2001 release, but we are nevertheless making Mercury available 
to 
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

We invite you to download Mercury from CCDC's website, use it, and 
feed back 
all comments that you have, negative or positive, to us at 
support...@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 your friends 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/

Best Regards,

from Everyone at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre



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