Crystallography Open Database (PSDI Mirror)

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The Crystallography Open Database (COD) is an open-access collection of crystal structures for organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals, excluding biopolymers. It contains over half a million entries from a wide range of published and unpublished sources, including large databases, small collections, and individual contributors. All data are made available under a permissive open-access licence. This dataset was originally developed and is maintained by the Crystallography Open Database project at https://www.crystallography.net/cod/. PSDI provides a mirror of both the COD website and its corresponding OPTIMADE endpoint to offer a UK-based access point, improving availability, resilience and performance.

This resource is part of the Data Sources for PSDI Cross Data Search & OPTIMADE Providers' Datasets resource themes.

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Please cite: Saulius Grazulis, Daniel Chateigner, Robert T. Downs, Alexandre F.T. Yokochi, Miguel Quiros, Loca Lutterotti, Elena Manakova, Justas Butkus, Peter Moeck and Armel Le Bail. Crystallography Open Database (PSDI Mirror). Online. 29 May 2026. Available from: https://resources.psdi.ac.uk/data/optimade-cod-cod. [accessed YYYY-MM-DD].

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OPTIMADE
API
database
COD
crystallography
organic
inorganic
open source
crystal structures
mirror