Useful links

Softwares
WinGX

WinGX is a programs for solving, refining and analysing single crystal X-ray diffraction data for small molecules. It is fully compatible with the SHELX-2014 programs and has interfaces to the SirWare programs.
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SHELX

SHELX is a set of programs for the determination of small (SM) and macromolecular (MM) crystal structures by single crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction.
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ORTEP-3

ORTEP-3 is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to make production of thermal ellipsoid plots much easier. Most of the commonly used features of ORTEP-III are directly available from the GUI.
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CrystalExplorer

Intermolecular interactions can be readily quantified using model energies built up from separate electrostatic, dispersion, polarization and exchange-repulsion terms, calibrated against dispersion-corrected density functional theory.
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Olex2

Olex2 is a simple to use program containing everything you need to solve, refine and finish small-molecule crystal structures using an intuitive user interface, honed over ten years of developmen
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PLATON

PLATON is a versatile crystallographic tool implementing a large variety of standard geometrical calculations, tests, utilities, graphics, several filters and the SQUEEZE option for handling disordered solvents.
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WinPLOTR

WinPLOTR is a software to plot powder diffraction patterns. It can be used to plot raw or normalized data files coming from neutron and X-ray diffractometers (conventionnal or synchrotron radiation) as well as as Rietveld files created by the Fullprof refinement program.
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TOPAS-Academic

TOPAS-Academic is a general non-linear least squares system driven by a scripting language. Its main focus is in crystallography, solid state chemistry and optimization.
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Mercury

Mercury offers a comprehensive range of tools for 3D structure visualization and the exploration of crystal packing and as the visualiser of choice within the crystallographic community.
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Materials Studio

Materials Studio is a complete modeling and simulation environment designed to allow researchers in materials science and chemistry to predict and understand the relationships of a material's atomic and molecular structure with its properties and behavior.
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AIM2000

A program to analyze and visualize atoms in molecules.
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PIXEL-CLP

a program to generate energy-vector models
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JANA2006

Jana2006 is a crystallographic program focused to solution, refinement and interpretation of difficult, especially modulated structures
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