The Cambridge Stuctural Database (CSD) is the world's most comprehensive collection of small-molecule crystal structures. Entries curated into the CSD are identified by a CSD Refcode.

Prefix

csd

Keywords

biochemistry chemistry organic chemistry organic molecular chemistry

Links

Homepage

Contact

Support Email   0000-0002-6062-7492

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Cambridge Structural Database should match this regular expression:
^[A-Z]{6}(\d{2})?$

Example Local Unique Identifier

PELNAW   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Cambridge Structural Database should match this regular expression:
^csd:[A-Z]{6}(\d{2})?$

Example CURIE

csd:PELNAW

Publications

• 2016 The Cambridge Structural Database
• 2002 The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising
• The Cambridge Structural Database.
• The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier PELNAW is used to demonstrate the providers available for Cambridge Structural Database. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.