XCrySDen is a crystalline and molecular structure visualisation program, which aims at display of isosurfaces and contours, which can be superimposed on crystalline structures and interactively rotated and manipulated. It can run on most UNIX platforms, without any special hardware requirements.

XCrySDen has been also ported to MAC OSX (requires X11) and Windows (requires CYGWIN).

The name of the program stands for Crystalline Structures and Densities and X because it runs under the X-Window environment.

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[June 16 2005]	XCrySDen mailing list established.
[June 07 2005]	Fixed severe bug in XSF reader (version 1.4.1).
[May 31 2005]	XCrySDen version 1.4 is available for download.
[Mar 01 2004]	XCrySDen version Beta-1.0 released under GNU General public license.
[May 14 2003]	XCrySDen's WEB address is www.xcrysden.org

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XCrySDen is released under the GNU General Public License.

Whenever graphics generated by XCrySDen are used in scientific publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an explicit reference. The preferred form is the following:

[ref] A. Kokalj, Comp. Mater. Sci., 2003, Vol. 28, p. 155. Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.

XCrySDen has been described in the following papers:

• A. Kokalj, Computer graphics and graphical user interfaces as tools in simulations of matter at the atomic scale, Comp. Mat. Sci., 2003, 28, 155--168.
• A. Kokalj, XCrySDen--a new program for displaying crystalline structures and electron densities, J. Mol. Graphics Modelling, 1999, 17, 176--179.
  
• A. Kokalj and M. Causà, Scientific Visualization in Computational Quantum Chemistry, Proceedings of High Performance Graphics Systems and Applications European Workshop, Bologna, Italy, 2000, 51--54.
  

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For further information contact:

Anton Kokalj
Dept. of Physical and Organic Chemistry
Jozef Stefan Institute
Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Email: Tone.Kokalj@ijs.si,
Fax: +386 1 477 3811
Tel: +386 1 477 3523

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