Finding the optimal solution to a complex optimization problem is of great importance in
many fields, ranging from protein structure prediction to the design of microprocessor …

The main goal of a novel drug development is to obtain it with optimal physiochemical,
pharmaceutical and biological properties. Pharmaceutical companies and scientists modify …

EXPO2013, the heir of EXPO2009, has been enriched by a variety of new algorithms and
graphical tools aiming at strengthening the individual steps of the powder structure solution …

A new program has been developed for ab initio crystal structure determination from powder
diffraction data (X-ray and neutron). It uses global-optimization algorithms to solve the …

The generic denomination of 'Memetic Algorithms'(MAs) is used to encompass a broad class
of metaheuristics (ie, general purpose methods aimed to guide an underlying heuristic). The …

Many crystalline solids cannot be prepared in the form of single crystals of sufficient size
and/or quality for investigation using single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction techniques, and the …

A genetic algorithm has been used to generate plausible crystal structures from the
knowledge of only the unit cell dimensions and constituent elements. We successfully …

About three decades ago, the existence of metal electrons in molecular crystals was proved
by X-ray (or neutron) experiments on Peierls instability (or giant Kohn anomaly) of a partially …

X-Cell is a novel indexing algorithm that makes explicit use of systematic absences to
search for possible indexing solutions from cells with low numbers of calculated reflections …

The program EXPO2009 is the evolution of EXPO2004 [Altomare, Caliandro, Camalli,
Cuocci, Giacovazzo, Moliterni & Rizzi (2004). J. Appl. Cryst. 37, 1025–1028]. EXPO2009 …