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Engage video

The Engage video 'Organic Crystal Research : Engage e-Infrastructure Case Study' has been released, giving a very broad overview of the project. If you are new to Crystal Structure Prediction, or the CPOSS project, you might be interested in viewing it. We would like to thank OMII-UK and Engage for commisioning this video.

General articles

An article appeared in Chemistry World in the February 2011 issue, featuring the work on progesterone's disappearing polymorphs.

The success of work on the project in predicting piracetam IV was featured on the nature/news website, Sept 2005.

An article appearing in the April 2007 issue of Chemistry World entitled "The shape shifters", by Susan Aldridge, mentions the projects aims and success with piracetam.

An article appeared in the Jan 2007 issue of Chemical and Engineering News entitled "Aspirin's Dose Of Structural Insight", by Ivan Amato, going over the recent developments in aspirin's polymorphism, emphasising the role of the predictions and quoting Sally.

An article in Science News, on 21 Aug 2004, entitled "Tricky Business: The crystal form of a drug can be the secret to its success", by Alexandra Goho, gives much background to the area of polymorphism, quoting Sally on the potential role of the project.

The Computational methodology

We wrote an article, Feb 2006, outlining expectations for Innovations in Pharmaceutical Technology.

An article (see p22) appeared in the eScience Centre annual review 2006-2007, which mentioned the use CPOSS makes of the STFC facilities.

The cposs project, was mentioned in the the Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 October 2006, as part of the success of e-Science.

An article on the Oracle Europe National Grid Service website, describing Grid computing and storage, mentions the project's database.

The project is mentioned on the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) website as an application of eScience

The project was mentioned in Highlights from the UK e-Science Programme.

An article in Frontiers 2004 (the publication of the Computational Science and Engineering Department, Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories) on"Dynamics in Crystals of Rigid Organic molecules.

An article (pp4-5) in HPCx News, Spring 2005, described "Kinetic insights into polymorphism in pharmaceutical (solid state) chemistry", provided by our Molecular Dynamics simulations.

The project's work on 5-fluorouracil, and the dependance of polymorphic outcome on a very small amount of water, was mentioned on the International Science Grid website, Aug 2007.

On the UCL News webpages the project was featured just before the Open Day, and again when a new polymorph was successfully predicted "blind".

The launch celebration was held in 2003.

Talks given on the work on this project

Many of the talks and posters listed below have been mentioned in BCA and IUCR newsletter meeting reports. Ashley Hulme wrote an article on the Crystallisation and Polymorphism of pharmaceuticals section of the meeting.

R. W. Lancaster, at the University of Otago, Dunedin, 22nd January 2009.

Experiences in Pharmaceutical Litigation

S. L. Price at "Innovation in Crystal Polymorphism: An international workshop in Bologna", 31st January-2nd February 2008

Computed Crystal Energy Landscapes: A route to Understanding Polymorphism?

S. L. Price, a Departmental Seminar in the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Nottingham, 7 November 2007

Progress and Problems in the computational prediction of organic crystal structures and polymorphism

S.L. Price at the OpenEye EuroCUP 21-22nd July 2007, Sheffield

Computed Crystal Energy Landscapes for the Prediction and Understanding of Polymorphism

A. J. Florence at the From Concept to Compound Meeting, Glasgow, June 2007.

Solid-State Research & Pharmaceutical Analysis

S.L. Price, at the 39th Course of the International School of Crystallography (a NATO ASI), 7-17th June 2007, Erice

On the calculation and interpretation of crystal energy landscapes

C. R. A. Catlow, at the BCA meeting, 17th-19th April 2007, University of Canterbury

Modelling an Predicting the Structures of Complex Solids and Nanoclusters

S. L. Price, at the BCA meeting, 17th-19th April 2007, University of Canterbury

The CCDC International Blind Tests of Crystal Structure Prediction - What have we learnt?

C. E. Hughes, at the Faraday Discussions Meeting, 2-4th April 2007, UCL

A Multi-Technique Approach for
Probing the Evolution of Structural
Properties During Crystallization of
Organic Materials from Solution

S. L. Price, at the IQPC meeting, Polymorphism & Crystallisation 2007, London, 22nd March 2007

Computed Crystal Energy Landscapes for Prediction & Understanding of Polymorphism

A. J. Florence gave the Todd Lecture at the West of Scotland Branch of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Glasgow, Mar 2007.

Crystals, Cures and Conundrums

A. J. Florence, at PPXRD-6, Barcelo Hotel Sants, Barcelona, Spain, 19-22 February 2007

X-ray Powder Diffraction at the Heart of Physical Form Discovery in CPOSS

C. C. Wilson, at Glasgow University Taster Weeks

Polymorphism and Pharmaceuticals: Molecules Behaving Badly

C. C. Wilson, at Café Scientifique – Public Discussion, Glasgow Tron Theatre, February 2007

Mysterious Cases of Misbehaving Molecules!

C. C. Wilson, at the West of Scotland Meeting for Teachers of Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, January 2007

Polymorphism and Pharmaceuticals: Structural and Theoretical Chemistry applied in Health and Business

D. A. Tocher, at Queen Mary University of London, 31st January 2007

Crystal structure prediction and discovery of pharmaceutically related compounds

S. L. Price, at the DARPA/MTO workshop on 3D Design of Organic Semiconductors, New Orleans, LA, 23rd January 2007.

Overview of Crystal Structure Prediction

S. L. Price, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 22nd January 2007.

Overview of Crystal Structure Prediction

S. L. Price, for the Glasgow and West of Scotland Local Section of the RSC, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 18 October 2006.

Towards a Computational Method of Predicting Organic Crystal Structures and Polymorphism

S. L. Price, at the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Material Science Focus Group one day symposium, UCL, 20 September 2006.

Towards determining the energetically feasible crystal structures - the first step to predicting polymorphs?

C. R. A. Catlow, at the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Material Science Focus Group one day symposium, UCL, 20 September 2006.

Views on prediction

D. A. Tocher, at the British Association of Crystal Growth annual meeting, Heriot-Watt University, Monday 11th September 2006.

New crystal forms of 5-flourouracil and 5-fluorocytosine: Comparing computational crystal structure prediction with experiment

S. L. Price, at the 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 10-14 September 2006

Progress and challenges in the computational prediction of polymorphism

P.G. Karamertzanis, at the 23rd European Crystallographic Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, 7 August 2006

Energy minimisation of crystal structures containing flexible molecules

S. L. Price, at Intermolecular Forces and Clusters: a Symposium in Honour of Professor Anthony Stone, University of Cambridge, 14 July 2006.

Organic Crystal Structures can be Remarkably Sensitive to Intermolecular Potentials

S. L. Price, at the Global Optimisation Workshop, Department of Chemistry, UCL, 6-7 July 2006

The limitation of global optimisation techniques in Organic Crystal Structure Prediction

S. L. Price, at the UCL Research Computing Summer Expo, 30 June 2006

Predicting organic crystal structures and the UCL Condor Pool

S. L. Price, to a joint audience from the Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Innsbruck, Monday 26 June 2006

Progress and problems in the computational prediction of organic crystal structure and polymorphism

P. Karamertzanis, at Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, USI Campus, Lugano, Switzerland, 22 June 2006

Crystal Structure Prediction
Current status and future challenges

S. L. Price at the BCA Spring Meeting, Lancaster University, 4-6 April 2006

Progress and Problems in Computational Prediction of Crystallisation and Polymorphism

D. A. Tocher at the Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, 13 March 2006

Crystal Structure Prediction and Discovery: 5-Fluorouracil, 5-Fluorocytosine and Barbituric Acid

S. L. Price at Transform Pharmaceuticals, Boston, USA 9-10 March 2006

Current State of Crystal Structure Prediction

A. J. Florence at the abc Technologies Conference, Basel, Switzerland, Jan. 2006;

Automated Parallel Crystallisation: Searching for Polymorphs

R. W. Lancaster at the University of Otago, New Zealand, 12 January 2006

Progesterone - A Well Understood Polymorphic System? A Model for Predictive Studies?

D. A. Tocher at the 3rd Annual NETWORK for Crystal Growth and Nucleation of Complex Materials: Linking Theory and Experiment meeting, University of Reading, 21-22 December 2005

5-Fluorouracil: Structure Prediction and Discovery

A. Hulme at the Chemical Crystallography Group Autumn Meeting, Daresbury Laboratory, 16 November 2005.

Crystal Structure Prediction of 5-Fluorocytosine and 5-Flurouracil

A. J. Florence at a Mettler-Toledo Seminar, Leicester, U.K., Oct 05

Crystallisation Studies and Physical Form Characterisation

A. J. Florence at the British Pharmaceutical Conference, Manchester, U.K., Sep. 2005;

A Crystal Clear Approach to Physical Pharmacy

S. Hamad Gomez at the New Advances in Crystal Growth and Nucleation conference, Lucca, Italy, 27 August - 3 September 2005.

Kinetic insights into the role of the solvent in the polymorphism of 5-fluorouracil

A. Torrisi at the New Advances in Crystal Growth and Nucleation conference, Lucca, Italy, 27 August - 3 September 2005.

Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State: The case of Cyclopentane.

P.G. Karamertzanis at the XX Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Florence, Italy, 23-31 August 2005.

Progress in crystal structure prediction for diastereomeric salts

S. L. Price at the 17th International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS XVII), University of California, Los Angeles, 24-29 July 2005.

Progress and Problems in the Computational Prediction of Organic Crystal Structures and Polymorphism

S. L. Price at the Fifth Congress of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, Renaissance Arts Hotel, New Orleans, 20-26 July 2005.

The theoretical challenges of organic crystal structure prediction

S. L. Price at the Molecular Crystal Engineering Euroconference on Evaluations and predictions of Solid State Materials Properties, Helsinki, Finland, 17-22 June 2005

Progress in the Computational Prediction of Organic Crystal Structures

S. L. Price at GSK, Stevenage, 16 June 2005

Progress in the Computational Prediction of Organic Crystal Structures

S. L. Price at the 25th Anniversary Graduate Student Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry Theoretical Chemistry Group, University of Nottingham, 13 April 2005.

Organic crystal structure prediction: a useful application of computational chemistry?

S. L. Price at the School of Natural Sciences (Chemistry), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 8 February 2005.

Progress and problems in the computational prediction of organic crystal structures

S. L. Price at the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University as part of their seminar series in conjunction with the South East Wales section of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 17 January 2005.

Towards the Prediction of Organic Crystal Structures and Polymorphism

T. C. Lewis at the Polymorphism and Crystallisation: Impact on Drug Development meeting, London, 14-17 December 2004.

Most Recent Advances in Computational Investigation of Polymorph Existence

A. Florence at the British Association for Crystal Growth meeting, Leeds, U.K., Sep 2004;

Crystallisation in Focus

S. L. Price at the CrystEngComm Discussion Meeting, Nottingham, 8-10 September 2004.

Keynote Lecture: Quantifying Intermolecular Interactions and their use in Computational Crystal Structure Prediction

A. J. Johnston at the European Crystallographic Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 26-31 August 2004.

Searching for Polymorphs: A Novel Automated Parallel Crystallisation and X-ray Powder Diffraction System

M. Tremayne at the European Crystallographic Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 26-31 August 2004.

Chlorothalonil: Unexpected and Unpredictable Polymorphic Structures

S. L. Price at the ACA Transactions Symposium, Chicago, 17-22 July 2004.

Crystal Structure Prediction and Polymorphism -some mutual insights

C. K. Broder at the 35th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 9-20 June 2004.

Phase diagram (p, T) Exploration by Neutron Powder Diffraction for Polymorph Discovery

S. L. Price at A Symposium in Honour of Professor Ruth Lynden-Bell on Atomistic Simulation, Queen's University Belfast, 21 May 2004.

Towards a computational model for predicting organic crystal structures

S. L. Price spoke at the CCDC 3rd Blind Test meeting to present results of crystal structure predictions made by Mr. A. Torrisi, Mr. T. C. Lewis, Dr. H. Nowell and Prof. S. L. Price. The meeting was held at the CCDC, Cambridge, 4-5 May 2004.

 

H. Nowell at the eScience meeting at Cosener's House, 11-12 May 2004 and at the London eScience PDRA meeting at the Royal Institution, 13 May 2004.

Computational Polymorph Prediction of Flexible Molecules

S. L. Price at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sheffield, as part of their seminar series, on 12 May 2004.

Progress and Problems in the Computational Prediction of Polymorphism

S. L. Price at the Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Symposium on Computational Chemistry, Burlington House, London, 29 April 2004.

Challenges in the Computational Prediction of Organic Crystal Structures

S. L. Price at the IQPC meeting on "Best Practice Strategies to identify, Characterise & Control: Polymorphism & Crystallisation", Cafe Royal, London, 21-22 April 2004.

Computational prediction of crystal structures and polymorphism

Posters presented on the work

S. A. Barnett, A. T. Hulme, N. Issa, D. A. Tocher and S. L. Price at the BCA meeting, 17th-19th April 2007, University of Canterbury

Experimental and Computational Studies of the Crystal Structures of 5-Substituted Uracils

A. T. Hulme and S. L. Price, at the BCA meeting, 17th-19th April 2007, University of Canterbury

Prediction of Monohydrate Crystal Structures

A. O'Neill and C. C. Wilson, at the BCA meeting, 17th-19th April 2007, University of Canterbury

Structure Solution and Metastable Zone Width Experiments of a Tri-Substituted Aromatic Compound

A. Cowell and M. Tremayne, at the BCA meeting, 17th-19th April 2007, University of Canterbury

An Investigation of the Polymorphic Behaviour and Structures of Oxamic Acid

C. E. Hughes at the 47th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, The Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, April 23 – 28, 2006.

Studying Crystallization In-Situ by NMR

M. Xu and K. D. M. Hariss, at the 47th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, The Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, April 23 – 28, 2006.

Alteration of Polymorph Selectivity in Dehydration of Sodium Acetate Trihydrate Induced by Fast Spinning in a MAS NMR Probe

C. K. Broder, at the BCA Spring Meeting, Lancaster University, 4-6 April 2006.

A Neutron Powder Diffraction Study Of Protonated Chlorothiazide

S. A. Barnett, D. A. Tocher and M. Vickers, at the BCA Spring Meeting, Lancaster University, 4-6 April 2006.

The Solvates of o-Acetamidobenzamide

A. T. Hulme, S. L. Price, D. A. Tocher, P. Fernandez, A. J. Florence, A. Johnston, D. A. Haynes, W. D. S. Motherwell, at the BCA Spring Meeting, Lancaster University, 4-6 April 2006.

The Search for a Predicted Hydrogen Bonding Motif - Automated Crystallisation Screening Performed on 3-Azabicyclo[3,3,1]nonane-2,4-dione

S. A. Barnett at the XX Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Florence, Italy, 23-31 August 2005.

Can a computational search predict complications in single crystal growth?

C. K. Broder at the XX Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Florence, Italy, 23-31 August 2005.

Phase Transitions in Tetrachlorobenzene Studied by Neutron Powder Diffraction

L. Vella-Zarb at the XX Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Florence, Italy, 23-31 August 2005.

Powder Diffraction and Crystal Structure Prediction: A Two-Way Relationship?

A. Johnston at the XX Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Florence, Italy, 23-31 August 2005.

Robotic Adventures in Crystallisation Space

K. Shankland at the XX Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Florence, Italy, 23-31 August 2005.

Rapid Structure Solution using Global Optimisation and Distributed Computing

M. Xu at the EUROMAR / EENC conference, 3-8 July 2005.

Studies of Polymorphism in Organic Solids by
in situ MAS NMR Spectroscopy

S. A. Barnett, S. L. Price and D. A. Tocher, at the CrystEngComm Discussion Meeting, Nottingham, 8-10 September 2004.

Polymorphism in 1,2,4,5-Tetrachlorobenzene

H. Nowell, B. Butchart, D. S. Coombes, S. L. Price, W. Emmerich, C. R. A. Catlow, at the eScience All Hands Meeting, 1-3 September 2004

Increasing the Scope for Polymorph Prediction using eScience

S. A. Barnett, S. L. Price and D. A. Tocher, at the 35th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 9-20 June 2004.

Polymorphism in 1,2,4,5-Tetrachlorobenzene

A. T. Hulme, S. L. Price and D. A. Tocher, at the 35th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 9-20 June 2004.
This poster won a prize.

An Experimental and Computational Crystal Structure Search on 5-Fluorouracil

P. G. Karamertzanis and C. C. Pantelides, at the 35th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 9-20 June 2004.

Crystal Structure Prediction of Molecular Solids

T. C. Lewis, D. A. Tocher and S. L. Price, at the 35th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 9-20 June 2004.

Computational and experimental searches for new polymorphs of five N-H C=O ring systems

H. Nowell, at the 35th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 9-20 June 2004 and at the meeting on Cutting Edge Approaches to Drug Design, University of Bradford, 26-27 April 2004.

Computational Polymorph Prediction of a Flexible Molecule for the Blind Test

C. K. Broder, W. I. F. David, K. Shankland, R. M. Iberson and C. C. Wilson, at the 35th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 9-20 June 2004.

Phase diagram (p, T) Exploration by Neutron Powder Diffraction for Polymorph Discovery

C. K. Broder, at the BCA Spring Meeting in Manchester, 5-8 April 2004.

Studying polymorphism and disorder by neutron powder diffraction

S. A. Barnett, S. L. Price and D. A. Tocher, at the BCA Spring Meeting in Manchester, 5-8 April 2004.

Polymorphism in 1,2,4,5-Tetrachlorobenzene

P. Karamertzanis, at the meeting on Cutting Edges Approaches to Drug Design, University of Bradford, 26-27 April 2004.

A general methodology for ab initio crystal structure prediction

Forthcoming presentations and conferences

S. L. Price, at the University of South Florida, 27 November 2007

S. L. Price, at the Scientific Update Meeting, Florida, 29-30 November 2007

S. L. Price, at Eli-Lilly, 2 December 2007

A. J. Florence, at the British Crystallographic Association, Spring Meeting, Mar 2008.

S. L. Price, at the IQPC meeting, Le Meridian, Picadilly, 11-12 March 2008

S. L. Price, at the Gordon Research Conference on Energetic Materials, New Hampshire, 15-20 June 2008

S. L. Price, at the XXI Congress and General Assembly of the IUCRm Osaka, Japan, 23-31 August 2008

 

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