:Mercury (crystallography)
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| name = Mercury
| title = Mercury (Crystal Structure Visualisation, Exploration and Analysis software)
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| screenshot = Mercury 4. 2. 0. Screenshot.png
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| author = F. H. Allen
| developer = Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
| released = {{Start date and age|2001}}
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| latest release version = Mercury 4.2.0
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2019 }}
| latest preview version = Mercury 4.2.0
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| operating system = Windows, Linux 64-bit, MacOS
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| license = Free download software
| website = {{URL|https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/Community/csd-community/freemercury/}}
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Mercury is a freeware developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, originally designed as a crystal structure visualization tool. Mercury helps three dimensional visualization of crystal structure and assists in drawing and analysis of crystal packing and intermolecular interactions.{{cite journal |last1=Clare F. |first1=Macrae |title=Mercury: visualization and analysis of crystal structures |journal=Journal of Applied Crystallography |date=28 February 2006 |volume=39 |page=453 |doi=10.1107/S002188980600731X |url=http://5.196.90.133/j/issues/2006/03/00/ks5091/ks5091.pdf}} Current version Mercury can read "cif", ".mol", ".mol2", ".pdb", ".res", ".sd" and ".xyz" types of files. Mercury has its own file format with filename extension ".mryx".{{cite web |title=Mercury User Guide and Tutorials |url=https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/support-and-resources/CCDCResources/Mercury_UserGuide.pdf |website=ccdc.cam.ac.uk}}
History
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) developed and launched two programs, named ConQuest and Mercury{{cite journal | last=Allen | first=Frank H. | title=The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising | journal=Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science | publisher=International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | volume=58 | issue=3 | date=2002-05-29 | issn=0108-7681 | doi=10.1107/s0108768102003890 | pages=380–388}} that run under Windows and various types of Unix, including Linux. ConQuest as a search interface to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), with Fortran code that performs a large variety of tasks, such as two dimensional and three-dimensional substructure searching. Mercury introduced as a crystal structure visualizer having the facilities for exploring the intermolecular contacts. The mercury program entirely written in object oriented C++. The C++ Qt library is used for building the GUI and OpenGL for three-dimensional graphics rendering. The primary objective of the first generation Mercury is to provide the three dimensional viewing of crystal structures with .MOL2, .PDB, .CIF, .MOL file formats.{{cite journal |last1=Bruno |first1=I. J. |title=New software for searching the Cambridge Structural Database and visualizing crystal structures |journal=Acta Crystallographica Section B |volume=B58 |page=389 |doi=10.1107/S0108768102003324 |url=http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0108768102003324|url-access=subscription }} The first version have approximately 2800 users signed on to the Mercury e-mail announcement list.{{cite journal |last1=I. Sovago |first1=C. F. Macrae |title=Mercury 4.0: from visualization to analysis, design and prediction |journal=Journal of Applied Crystallography |volume=53 |page=226 |doi=10.1107/S1600576719014092 |pmc=6998782 |url=https://journals.iucr.org/j/issues/2020/01/00/gj5232/gj5232.pdf|doi-access=free }} Mercury 2.0 launched in 2008, with additional tools to interpret and compare packing trends in crystal structures. Mercury version released in 2015 and later provides an additional functionality to generate 3D print.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/Community/blog/post-56/|title=3D Printing: Easy as 1, 2, 3! | date=August 19, 2015|website=The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)|language=en|access-date=2019-05-18}} The current Version 4.0 of Mercury developed its visual interface up to a greater extent by comparing with its old versions.
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/Community/csd-community/freemercury/}}
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