Welcome to our latest newsletter. This month we talk to CCDC's new head of science, Dr Susan Reutzel-Edens about her vision for the Centre, look at the latest FDA drug approvals and the increasing relevance of predictive methods for computational chemistry. Application news includes new additions to our "tools in action" series, tutorial videos from our scientists and our Big Sur maintenance release. Also look out for our virtual workshops, webinars and events for you to join.
The CCDC team
FDA's drug approvals in 2020
The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 53 new therapeutics, according to a recent article published by Nature. That is an increase over the 48 therapeutics approved in 2019. Small molecules make up 38 of 53 and they are expected to constitute many of the highest selling new therapeutics. Read more
Latest Blogs
Why computational chemists should follow CSP developments?
In this blog you will learn more about CSP methods and how they can benefit the computational chemistry community. Read more
Q&A with the new Head of Science
Dr Susan Reutzel-Edens answers some of our community questions and shares her vision of future developments at CCDC. Read more
What's the difference between a MOF and a COF?
Do you know what a MOF is? And what are 2D MOFs? This blog answers some of the most common questions about MOFs.
Learn more about the CSL, a free online database aiming to share reaction incident information to advance laboratory safety for everyone. Read more
2020.3.1 CSD Release
This is a maintenance release, only applicable to macOS users. It provides full support for our portfolio on macOS 11.0 (Big Sur). Read more
CSD-Editor update
This update to CSD-Editor makes it compatible with the latest CSD database schemas. Read more
Learn tips and tricks to get the most out of your CCDC software, in these show one / try one virtual workshops. Our team will be on hand throughout for support and guidance.
CSD in action: Principles to limit dynamic disorder in molecular semiconductors
Next up for the CCDC tools in action series, we highlight a paper from the University of Liverpool using the CSD to identify the major characteristics of structures with a low degree of dynamic disorder for use in semiconductors. Read more
CSD Educators
The CSD-Educators series started last October and since then we have been sharing impressive and inspirational stories from our community of educators. Each guest brings new ideas and great feedback on how to use the CSD tools when teaching the next generations of scientists. In March we have the pleasure to welcome Dean H. Johnston, from Otterbein University and Natalia Alvarez, from Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Read more
New tutorial videos available
Learn tips and tricks on editing and analysing protein structures for computational structural biology and in silico docking using Hermes. Watch here
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