Mercury 4.0: from visualization to analysis, design and prediction

Abstract

The program Mercury , developed at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, was originally designed primarily as a crystal structure visualization tool. Over the years the fields and scientific communities of chemical crystallography and crystal engineering have developed to require more advanced structural analysis software. Mercury has evolved alongside these scientific communities and is now a powerful analysis, design and prediction platform which goes a lot further than simple structure visualization.

Keywords

VisualizationMercury (programming language)Scientific visualizationSoftwareComputer scienceData visualizationData scienceComputer graphics (images)Data miningProgramming language

Affiliated Institutions

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre GB

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Year: 2019
Type: article
Volume: 53
Issue: 1
Pages: 226-235
Citations: 4359
Access: Closed

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                                    Clare F. Macrae, 
                                
                                    Ioana Şovago, 
                                
                                    Simon J. Cottrell
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2019). 
                            <i>Mercury 4.0</i>: from visualization to analysis, design and prediction. 
                            Journal of Applied Crystallography
                            , 53
                            (1)
                            , 226-235.
                            https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576719014092
                        

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DOI: 10.1107/s1600576719014092

<i>Mercury 4.0</i>: from visualization to analysis, design and prediction