Mercury Self-Help

Owned by David Blood
Last updated: Aug 15, 2024 by David Blood
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What is Mercury?

Mercury is a program for visualizing crystal structures in three dimensions, and or analyzing the results of ConQuest substructure searches, or to investigate other data sets, which may be read in from .csv (comma-separated value) or.tsv (tab-separated value)

What to do before installing Mercury

  1. First, you must make an account. Go to the following link: https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/account/login/register?returnUrl=%2Fsolutions%2Fcsd-system%2Fcomponents%2Fmercury%2F

  2. You can use your Geneseo account or any other account to register

Troubleshooting:

  • If you see the icon below, wait about 24 hours and then try to log in with the credentials that you set up for Mercury. It should allow you to log in.