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Last Updated: 05/06/2026

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Cambridge
Founded 1965
Structural chemistry database and software for drug discovery

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is a non-profit organisation that curates and distributes the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), the world's repository of experimentally determined small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures, containing over one million entries.

Alongside the database, CCDC develops and licenses a suite of cheminformatics software tools used in pharmaceutical drug discovery, solid form analysis, and molecular design.

The organisation also conducts independent research in structural chemistry and offers consultancy services to industrial clients.

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