The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and its accompanying software for search and analysis (ConQuest, Mercury, IsoStar and Mogul) – together known as the CSD System (CSDS) – is a fundamental resource in structural chemistry, finding applications in academia and in industry across a broad range of topics such as drug design and discovery, drug development and formulation, and materials science.

The workshop will provide information about the CSD itself, its content and its production. The CSDS software will be described, and a number of hands-on examples of the use of the CSDS to address real problems of both industrial and academic importance will be followed.