Mercury (crystallography)

Mercury (Crystal Structure Visualisation, Exploration and Analysis software)
Original author(s)F. H. Allen
Developer(s)Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Initial release2001 (2001)
Stable release
Mercury 4.2.0 / 2019 (2019)
Preview release
Mercury 4.2.0
Operating systemWindows, Linux 64-bit, MacOS
LicenseFree download software
Websitewww.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/Community/csd-community/freemercury/

Mercury is a freeware developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, originally designed as a crystal structure visualization tool. Mercury helps three dimensional visualization of crystal structure and assists in drawing and analysis of crystal packing and intermolecular interactions. Current version Mercury can read "cif", ".mol", ".mol2", ".pdb", ".res", ".sd" and ".xyz" types of files. Mercury has its own file format with filename extension ".mryx".