CCDC - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Research ServicesEngland, United Kingdom51-200 Employees
CCDC, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, is a non-profit research organization based in Cambridge, England. It specializes in curating and applying structural chemistry data, software, and knowledge to support materials and life sciences research and development. The centre's flagship resource, the Cambridge Structural Database, hosts fully curated organic and metal-organic structures used by researchers around the world. Its work serves researchers in both academia and industry who rely on reliable, interoperable data to inform experiments and development. As a nonprofit, CCDC runs educational outreach and sponsorship programs, including PhD sponsorships, to inspire the next generation of scientists. The organization aims to advance data accessibility and scientific impact through a unified, FAIR-inspired platform that makes structural and property information easily findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.