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Special Collection from the 27th IUCr Congress
Publishing top-quality research from our Congresses
The triennial congresses of the IUCr are the major international scientific meetings for structural scientists worldwide. The current Congress is the 27th, and is being held in Calgary, Canada, on 11–18 August 2026. IUCr Journals is publishing an online collection of articles showcasing new and exciting research reported at the Congress.
The issue is open to submissions until the end of 2026, and articles will be added to the issue throughout 2026 and 2027.
A tribute to George Sheldrick: the legacy of a crystallographic computing pioneer
George Sheldrick transformed and then ruled chemical crystallography model refinement. We expect articles in this Tribute to connect with his pioneering work and to be relevant to all these domains, from foundations to structural chemistry and biology, including software, instrumentation and methods, as well as teaching.
Recently published collections
CryoEM in the fast lane of structural biology
Editors: Richard Henderson, S. Samar Hasnain, Sriram Subramaniam and Werner Kühlbrandt
A collection of articles celebrating ten years of frontier cryoEM papers in IUCrJ.
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2024
Edited by Tom Burnley, Paula da Fonseca, Peter Rosenthal and Peijun Zhang
This virtual issue collects together articles from the 2024 CCP-EM Spring Symposium.
Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
Edited by Carlos Oscar Sorzano, Alberto Bartesaghi and Amit Singer
This virtual issue collects together articles on image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens.
CommDat special virtual issue on the raw diffraction data workshop and microsymposia at IUCr2023
Edited by Loes Kroon-Batenburg
Papers from the CommDat workshop on ‘Raw Diffraction Data Reuse: the Good, the Bad and the Challenging’ at the IUCr2023 Congress in Melbourne as well as the CommDat-organized microsymposia ‘Raw Diffraction Data Reuse: Warts and All’ and ‘Interoperability of Crystallographic Data and Databases’ are collected in this special virtual issue.
Machine learning in crystallography and structural science
Edited by Simon J. L. Billinge and Thomas Proffen
This virtual collection gathers together articles from Acta Crystallographica (Sections A, B and D), Journal of Synchrotron Radiation and IUCrJ, illustrating the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in structural science.
List of published collections
Decision making in MX - how to be a productive structural biologist
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2024: Decision making in MX - how to be a productive structural biologist
Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
Acta Cryst. D, Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
CCP-EM
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2024
Data - subtle details to big insights
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2023: Data - subtle details to big insights
CCP-EM
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2023
Current trends in macromolecular model refinement and validation
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2022 - Current trends in macromolecular model refinement and validation
CCP-EM
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2022
Integrating Structural Biology
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2021 - Integrating Structural Biology
CCP-EM
Acta Cryst. D, CCPEM Spring Symposium 2021
CCP-EM
Acta Cryst. D, CCPEM Spring Symposium 2020
Research reported at the 25th IUCr Congress
Acta Cryst. D, IUCr 2021
ISDSB 2019
Acta Cryst. D, International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB) 2019
Model building, validation and representation in MX and cryoEM
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2020 - Model building, validation and representation in MX and cryoEM
Molecular replacement
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2019 - Molecular replacement
CCP-EM
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2019
CCP-EM
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2018
CCP4 - Multi and serial data collection and processing
Acta Cryst. Volume D75, Part 2 (pp. 111-241, 1 February 2019)
Neutron scattering for the study of biological systems
Acta Cryst. Volume D74, Part 12 (pp. 1126-1244, 1 December 2018)
5th International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB2016)
Acta Cryst. Volume D74, Part 8 (pp. 713-813, 1 August 2018)
Proceedings of the third CCP-EM Spring Symposium
Acta Cryst. Volume D74, Part 6 (pp. 490-594, 1 June 2018)
CCP4 - From crystal to structure with CCP4 (Part 2)
Acta Cryst. Volume D74, Part 3 (pp. 167-244, 1 March 2018)
CCP4 - From crystal to structure with CCP4 (Part 1)
Acta Cryst. Volume D74, Part 2 (pp. 67-166, 1 February 2018)
Proceedings of the CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2016
Acta Cryst. Volume D73, Part 6 (pp. 467-548, 1 June 2017)
CCP4 - Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry (Part 2)
Acta Cryst. Volume D73, Part 3 (pp. 195-285, 1 March 2017)
CCP4 - Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry (Part 1)
Acta Cryst. Volume D73, Part 2 (pp. 77-194, 1 February 2017)
CCP4 - Advances in experimental phasing
Acta Cryst. Volume D72, Part 3 (pp. 291-453, 1 March 2016)
CCP4 - Two Way Street - Complementary Methods
Acta Cryst. Volume D71, Part 1 (pp. 1-172, 1 January 2015)
Diffraction data deposition
Acta Cryst. Volume D70, Part 10 (pp. 2500-2780, 1 October 2014)
CCP4 Study Weekend: Molecular replacements, Nottingham, UK, January 2013
Acta Cryst. Volume D69, Part 11 (pp. 2165-2292, 1 November 2013)
CCP4 Study Weekend: Data collection and processing, University of Warwick, UK, January 2012
Acta Cryst. Volume D69, Part 7 (pp. 1193-1332, 1 July 2013)
Integrated Software for Integrative Structural Biology
Acta Cryst. Volume D69, Part 5 (pp. 681-924, 1 May 2013)
CCP4 Study Weekend: Model building, refinement and validation, University of Warwick, UK, January 2011
Acta Cryst. Volume D68, Part 4 (pp. 325-496, 1 April 2012)
CCP4 Study Weekend: From Crystal to Structure with CCP4, Nottingham, UK, January 2010
Acta Cryst. Volume D67, Part 4 (pp. 233-394, 1 April 2011)
Neutrons in biology
Acta Cryst. Volume D66, Part 11 (pp. 1121-1268, 1 November 2010)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Experimental Phasing and Radiation Damage, Nottingham, UK, January 2009
Acta Cryst. Volume D66, Part 4 (pp. 325-501, 1 April 2010)
Workshop on New Algorithms in Macromolecular Crystallography and Electron Microscopy, Leiden, The Netherlands, May 2008
Acta Cryst. Volume D65, Part 7 (pp. 623-732, 1 July 2009)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Low-Resolution Structure Determination and Validation, Leeds, UK, January 2008
Acta Cryst. Volume D65, Part 2 (pp. 101-199, 1 February 2009)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Molecular Replacement, Reading, UK, January 2007
Acta Cryst. Volume D64, Part 1 (pp. 1-140, 1 January 2008)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Crystallography of Complexes, Leeds, UK, January 2006
Acta Cryst. Volume D63, Part 1 (pp. 1-117, 1 January 2007)
Structural Proteomics IN Europe
Acta Cryst. Volume D62, Part 10 (pp. 1103-1285, 1 October 2006)
Get-Phases, Beijing, People's Republic of China, October-November 2005
Acta Cryst. Volume D62, Part 8 (pp. 843-945, 1 August 2006)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Data Collection and Analysis, Reading, UK, January 2005
Acta Cryst. Volume D62, Part 1 (pp. 1-124, 1 January 2006)
10th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 5-8 June 2004
Acta Cryst. Volume D61, Part 6 (pp. 651-843, 1 June 2005)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Model Building and Refinement, Leeds, UK, January 2004
Acta Cryst. Volume D60, Part 12 Number 1 (pp. 2115-2294, 1 December 2004)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Experimental Phasing, York, UK, January 2003
Acta Cryst. Volume D59, Part 11 (pp. 1881-2050, 1 November 2003)
CCP4 Study Weekend on High-Throughput Structure Determination, York, UK, January 2002
Acta Cryst. Volume D58, Part 11 (pp. 1897-1970, 1 November 2002)
9th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, Jena, Germany, 23-28 March 2002
Acta Cryst. Volume D58, Part 10 Number 1 (pp. 1511-1764, 1 October 2002)
Crystallographic databases
Acta Cryst. Volume D58, Part 6 Number 1 (pp. 879-920, 1 June 2002)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Molecular Replacement and its Relatives, York, UK, January 2001
Acta Cryst. Volume D57, Part 10 (pp. 1355-1490, 1 October 2001)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Low-Resolution Phasing, York, UK, January 2000
Acta Cryst. Volume D56, Part 10 (pp. 1205-1357, 1 October 2000)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Data Collection and Processing, Sheffield, UK, January 1999
Acta Cryst. Volume D55, Part 10 (pp. 1631-1772, 1 October 1999)
CCP4 Study Weekend on Databases for Macromolecular Crystallographers, Reading, UK, January 1998
Acta Cryst. Volume D54, Part 6, Number 1 (pp. 1065-1206, 1 November 1998)
Structure-Based Drug Design, Panama City Beach, Florida, USA, 22-25 April 1994
Acta Cryst. Volume D51, Part 4 (pp. 405-608, 1 July 1995)
Fifth International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, San Diego, California, 8-13 August 1993
Acta Cryst. Volume D50, Part 4 (pp. 337-666, 1 July 1994)
Direct Methods of Phasing in Macromolecular Crystallography, Panama City Beach, Florida, USA, 24-27 April 1992
Acta Cryst. Volume D49, Part 1 (pp. 1-222, 1 January 1993)
Direct Methods of Phasing in Macromolecular Crystallography,Panama City Beach, Florida, USA, 24-27 April 1992
Acta Cryst. D, Direct Methods of Phasing in Macromolecular Crystallography,Panama City Beach, Florida, USA, 24-27 April 1992
Fifth International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM5) ,San Diego, California, 8-13 August 1993
Acta Cryst. D, Fifth International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM5) ,San Diego, California, 8-13 August 1993
Structure-Based Drug Design,Panama City Beach, Florida, USA, 22-25 April 1994
Acta Cryst. D, Structure-Based Drug Design,Panama City Beach, Florida, USA, 22-25 April 1994
CCP4 Study Weekend 1998 on Databases for Macromolecular Crystallographers
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 1998 on Databases for Macromolecular Crystallographers
CCP4 Study Weekend 1999 on Data Collection and Processing
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 1999 on Data Collection and Processing
CCP4 Study Weekend 2000 on Low-Resolution Phasing
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2000 on Low-Resolution Phasing
CCP4 Study Weekend 2001 on Molecular Replacement and its Relatives
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2001 on Molecular Replacement and its Relatives
CCP4 Study Weekend 2002 on High-Throughput Structure Determination
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2002 on High-Throughput Structure Determination
Crystallographic databases
Acta Cryst. D, Crystallographic databases
9th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM9)
Acta Cryst. D, 9th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM9)
CCP4 Study Weekend 2003 on Experimental Phasing, York, UK, January 2003
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2003 on Experimental Phasing, York, UK, January 2003
CCP4 Study Weekend 2004 on Model Building and Refinement
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2004 on Model Building and Refinement
10th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM10)
Acta Cryst. D, 10th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM10)
CCP4 Study Weekend 2005 on Data Collection and Analysis
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2005 on Data Collection and Analysis
Get-Phases (International Workshop on Recent Advances in Phasing Methods for High-throughput Protein Structure Determination)
Acta Cryst. D, Get-Phases (International Workshop on Recent Advances in Phasing Methods for High-throughput Protein Structure Determination)
Structural Proteomics IN Europe (SPINE)
Acta Cryst. D, Structural Proteomics IN Europe (SPINE)
CCP4 Study Weekend 2006 on Crystallography of Complexes
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2006 on Crystallography of Complexes
CCP4 Study Weekend 2007 on Molecular Replacement
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2007 on Molecular Replacement
Workshop on New Algorithms in Macromolecular Crystallography and Electron Microscopy
Acta Cryst. D, Workshop on New Algorithms in Macromolecular Crystallography and Electron Microscopy
CCP4 Study Weekend 2008 on Low-Resolution Structure Determination and Validation
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2008 on Low-Resolution Structure Determination and Validation
CCP4 Study Weekend 2009 on Experimental Phasing and Radiation Damage
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2009 on Experimental Phasing and Radiation Damage
Neutrons in biology 2010
Acta Cryst. D, Neutrons in biology 2010
CCP4 Study Weekend 2010: From Crystal to Structure with CCP4
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2010: From Crystal to Structure with CCP4
CCP4 Study Weekend 2011: Model building, refinement and validation
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2011: Model building, refinement and validation
CCP4 Study Weekend 2012: Data collection and processing
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2012: Data collection and processing
CCP4 Study Weekend 2013: Molecular replacements
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2013: Molecular replacements
Integrated Software for Integrative Structural Biology
Acta Cryst. D, Integrated Software for Integrative Structural Biology
Diffraction data deposition (DDDWG)
Acta Cryst. D, Diffraction data deposition (DDDWG)
CCP4 Study Weekend 2014 – Two Way Street – Complementary Methods
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2014 – Two Way Street – Complementary Methods
CCP4 Study Weekend 2015 – Advances in experimental phasing
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2015 – Advances in experimental phasing
Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry
Acta Cryst. D, Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry
CCP4 – Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry (Part 1)
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 – Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry (Part 1)
CCP4 – Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry (Part 2)
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 – Protein-ligand complexes: understanding biological chemistry (Part 2)
Proceedings of the CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2016
Acta Cryst. D, Proceedings of the CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2016
CCP4 Study Weekend 2017
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2017
CCP4 – From crystal to structure with CCP4 (Part 1)
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 – From crystal to structure with CCP4 (Part 1)
CCP4 – From crystal to structure with CCP4 (Part 2)
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 – From crystal to structure with CCP4 (Part 2)
Proceedings of the third CCP-EM Spring Symposium
Acta Cryst. D, Proceedings of the third CCP-EM Spring Symposium
5th International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB2016)
Acta Cryst. D, 5th International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB2016)
Neutron scattering for the study of biological systems
Acta Cryst. D, Neutron scattering for the study of biological systems
CCP4 Study Weekend – Multi and serial data collection and processing
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend – Multi and serial data collection and processing
Top performing articles in Acta Cryst. D, Structural Biology
Acta Cryst. D, Top performing articles in Acta Cryst. D, Structural Biology
CCP4 Study Weekend 2019
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2019
CCP4 Study Weekend 2020
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2020
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2018
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2018
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2019
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2019
CCP4 Study Weekend 2021
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2021
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2020
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2020
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2021
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2021
CCP4 Study Weekend 2022
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2022
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2022
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2022
CCP4 Study Weekend 2023
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2023
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2023
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2023
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2024
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2024
Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
Acta Cryst. D, Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
CCP4 Study Weekend 2024
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2024
CCP4 Study Weekend 2025
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2025
CCP4 Study Weekend 2026
Acta Cryst. D, CCP4 Study Weekend 2026
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2025
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2025
CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2026
Acta Cryst. D, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2026
Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
Acta Cryst. D, Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
Seventh International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology 2025
Acta Cryst. D, Seventh International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology 2025
Radiation Damage
Acta Cryst. D, Radiation Damage
SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting 2025
Acta Cryst. D, SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting 2025
Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
Acta Cryst. D, Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens
