Crystallography World Wide

Teaching and Education in Crystallography

This index is an unordered mish-mash of material of use in education and teaching of crystallography. It needs restructuring and bringing up to date. Any concrete suggestions of how this might be done are most welcome to the Crystallography World Wide Editor

• Crystallographic CourseWare - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
• Java lattice - interactive macromolecular graphics
• Crystallographic Topology 101, a tutorial
• WWW server for 3D crystal structures in VRML
• Catalog of 6-connected 3D nets in VRML (and PDB) format
• Teaching guide for X-ray diffraction
• Diffuse scattering and the defect structure of zirconia
• Macromolecular Crystal Packing in Virtual Reality
• Frontiers of Protein Structure Prediction
• Reviews in Computational Chemistry - of interest to crystallographers who do structural biology and structure-based drug design. It describes books that deal with molecular modeling, etc.
• ILL's gallery of interactive 3D Crystal structures using VRML
• Introductory Crystallography from the University of Queensland using VRML demonstrations
• 2nd Internet Course in Principles of Protein Structure
• X-ray anomalous scattering
• Crystal structures of silicates
• High-temperature superconductors
• Fundamentals of powder diffraction
• Cryocrystallography Video
• XR95 - Educational DOS software doing X-ray diffraction pattern simulation (+ Kossel), structure and vector space viewer, periodic table, tiling generator
• Photomicroscopy of colorful crystals and even more stranger crystal images
• Teaching Guide for Diffraction Physics
• BCA Educational Software Survey
• XRayView - a Teaching Aid for X-ray Crystallography
• Fourier Transforms
• Optical Transforms
• Statistical Descriptors in Crystallography - Reports of a working group appointed by the IUCr Nomenclature Committee
• X-Ray diffraction education from UCSD - San Diego
• Supercomputing resource (with visits) for molecular biology- Heidelberg
• Principles of Protein Structure - Interactive - Multimedia Course
• Birkbeck College Crystallography courses
• Crystallographic ERASMUS network - CENET