Teaching and Education in Crystallography

• Interactive Structure Factor Tutorial by Kevin Cowtan teaches about structure factors, phases, symmetry, and the relationship between the structure factors and the electron density map. Magnitudes and phases are represented by colours in the same way as the Book of Fourier.
• Symétrie des figures périodiques Adaptation in french of a programmed course written by H. Schenk in the 1960s.
• X-ray diffraction Simulators by Marc De Graef: Pointgroup and Bravais Lattices, 2D X-ray Diffraction Simulator and 3D X-ray Diffraction Simulator.
• Advanced Certficate in Principles of Protein Structure '98/'99, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Molecular Modeling Tutorial
• Scanning Probe Microscopy Teaching Web site
• Teaching Pamphlets of the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Teaching
• Advanced Certificate in Protein Crystallography on the Web '97/98
• Difference Patterson Tutorial
• The Rietveld Method
• Bragg's Law and Diffraction: How waves reveal the atomic structure of crystals
• Principles of Protein Structure 97/98 An Advanced Certificate in Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet '97/'98(Posted:3rd August 1997)
• Strategies in Structure Determination from Powder Data
• Stereographic pole projections with onscreen indexing
• Roger's Connection, Magnetic construction toy suitable for making flexible atomic and crystal models
• ALTWYK, generates the general and Wyckoff positions for all space group symbols in International Tables, Vol. A, (1983), including all alternate symbols.
• Introduction to Crystal Structure VRML course.
• Transformée de Fourier A theoretical course on Fourier transform and its computation (in french).
• X-Ray Crystallography Simulator
• Software and On-Line Resources for Crystallography Education
• Growing Crystals A tutorial at high school level
• QuasiTiler 3.0 QuasiTiler draws Penrose tilings and their generalizations.
• Escher Web Sketch, a program for drawing 2D patterns with a W3 browser
• Interactive course on crystallographic calculations (in French): reciprocal space, distance between planes...
• Picture gallery of Quartz crystals
• Least-squares planes
• Crystal Growing for Students
• Tutorial in Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction (in French)
• Reverse Monte Carlo Modelling
• Crystallography 101 - Interactive web tutorial
• Surface Explorer- a WWW oriented tool to display netplanes and surfaces
• Software for Interactive Manipulation of Representation Surfaces for Higher-Rank Tensor properties
• Zeolites - Altas of Structure Types and Collection of Simulated XRD Powder Patterns
• CRIOL: CRIstallografia On Line, teaching material for crystallography, some parts in English, some parts in Italian; also Web e Didattica, on-line teaching material for earth sciences.
• A Crystallographer's Guide to Internet Tools and Resources
• Crystallographic CourseWare - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
• Crystallographic Topology 101, a tutorial, The Topology of Crystallographic Groups and Simple Crystal Structures
• WWW server for 3D crystal structures in VRML
• Catalog of 6-connected 3D nets in VRML (and PDB) format
• Teaching guide for X-Ray and neutron diffraction: Germany
• DISCUS: DIffuse SCattering and defect strUcture Simulation: Germany and USA
• Protein Crystallography WWW Software Services including the Java Lattice, Crystal Packing Virtual Reality, X-Plor GUI - The CGI Approach and Symmetry Equivalent Positions Generator
• Frontiers of Protein Structure Prediction
• ILL's gallery of interactive 3D Crystal structures using VRML
• 2nd Internet Course in Principles of Protein Structure
• X-ray anomalous scattering
• Crystal structures of silicates
• Superconductor Structure Catalog
• Fundamentals of powder diffraction
• Cryocrystallography Video, The Application of Low Temperature Crystallographic Techniques
• XR95 - Educational DOS software doing X-ray diffraction pattern simulation (+ Kossel), structure and vector space viewer, periodic table, tiling generator
• Photomicroscopy of colorful crystals
• BCA Educational Software Survey
• XRayView - a Teaching Aid for X-ray Crystallography
• Fourier Transforms, A book of pictorial 2-D
• 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
• Principles of Protein Structure - Interactive - Multimedia Course
• Birkbeck College Crystallography courses
• Crystallographic ERASMUS network - CENET