The Cambridge Stuctural Database (CSD) is the world's most comprehensive collection of small-molecule crystal structures. Entries curated into the CSD are identified by a CSD Refcode.

Prefix

csd

Keywords

atomic coordinate biochemistry chemistry organic chemistry organic molecular chemistry protein structure structure x-ray diffraction

Links

Homepage

Publications

2016 The Cambridge Structural Database

2002 The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in Cambridge Structural Database should match this regular expression:
^[A-Z]{6}(\d{2})?$

Example Local Unique Identifier

PELNAW   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Cambridge Structural Database should match this regular expression:
^csd:[A-Z]{6}(\d{2})?$

Example CURIE

csd:PELNAW

Contact

Colin Groom   0000-0001-8921-9575

Group Contact

Mailing List

Identifier Space Owner

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier PELNAW is used to demonstrate the providers available for Cambridge Structural Database. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.