Welcome to the X-Seed Home Page


X-Seed is a Windows program for X-Ray crystallographers.  It's primary functions are:

1. to serve as a front-end to the SHELX-97 program suite,

2. to produce high-quality molecular graphics images from crystal structure data, and

3. to facilitate exploration, analysis and manipulation of structures.


X-SEED NEWS

VERSION 2.00 NOW AVAILABLE! See Download Page.


A short description of X-Seed has been published:
L. J. Barbour, "X-Seed - A software tool for supramolecular crystallography" J. Supramol. Chem. 2001, 1, 189-191.

Also see the perspective article:
J. L. Atwood & L. J. Barbour, "Molecular Graphics: from science to art" Cryst. Growth Des. 2003, 3, 3-8.