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May 29, 2002Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science

The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising

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FAFrank H. AllenNorth West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

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Database survey reports over 250,000 curated small-molecule crystal structures in the Cambridge Structural Database, indicating rapid expansion toward half a million entries.

Key Points

  • To review the growth, data curation methods, editorial validation pipelines, and future submission trajectories of the Cambridge Structural Database.
  • Assessed editorial data ingestion mechanisms, with nearly 80% of submissions received electronically via Crystallographic Information File (CIF) format across 51 partner journals.
  • Evaluated curation workflows involving expert chemical annotation and dual-format maintenance across a CIF archive (over 73,000 files since 1996) and a binary distribution archive.
  • Conducted a statistical survey of deposition metrics to project future structural accession rates through 2010.
  • The Cambridge Structural Database contains over 250,000 small-molecule crystal structures, supported by a CIF archive of more than 73,000 files.
  • Electronic submissions account for nearly 80% of incoming data, establishing the depository as the primary archive for 51 major scientific journals.
  • Accession modeling indicates that the repository will expand to at least 500,000 crystal structures by the year 2010.

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