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

Abstract

The program <i>Mercury</i>, 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. <i>Mercury</i> 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.