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OlexSys

We are a small new spin-out company of Durham University. Our operation is based around the free and open-source software Olex2.
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Olex2

As a result of years of success­ful develop­ment funded by public funds, our Olex2 soft­ware is now at the stage of full scale commer­cial develop­ment so that we can continue to provide proper support for the many users of Olex2 world­wide. We will con­tinue to develop Olex2 as open source and free soft­ware and we are currently develop­ing commercial add-ons to Olex2, which will be available in due course.

Training

Our main commercial activity is the provision of training in the area of chemical crystallo­graphy – from data collection right through to the genera­tion of publication-quality tables, reports and images.

We are committed to support academic insti­tutions wherever we can, and offer free academic visits.

Structures

We offer various services centred around small-molecule crystal structures. We can perform complete structure determinations, work on your existing structures so that they will be completed as a consis­tent set and we can check whether your structures are fit for sub­mission to a peer-reviewed journal.

Olex2 has been developed at Durham University since 2004. Between 2005 and 2010, the development of this open-source software was funded by the British Government with an EPSRC grant. The software has become well established in the crystallographic community, and OlexSys is committed to its continued development as a free and open source product.