Initiated in 1997, at the Materials Laboratory of the University of the Basque Country, Spain, the Bilbao Crystallographic Server has since been offering its crystallographic and solid state programs and utilities, free of charge.

Due to the variety of the topics related, the programs hosted on the server are grouped into the so called shells which are:

Space Groups Retrieval Tools
- GENPOS, WYCKPOS, HKLCOND, MAXSUB, SERIES, WYCKSETS, NORMALIZER, KVEC, SYMMETRY OPERATIONS, IDENTIFY GROUP
Magnetic Space Groups
- MGENPOS, MWYCKPOS, MNORMALIZER, IDENTIFY MAGNETIC GROUP, BNS2OG, mCIF2PCR, MPOINT, MAGNEXT, MAXMAGN, MAGMODELIZE, STRCONVERT, k-SUBGROUPSMAG, MAGNDATA, MVISUALIZE, MTENSOR, MAGNETIC REP, Get_mirreps
Group - Subgroup Relations of Space Groups
- SUBGROUPGRAPH, HERMANN, COSETS, WYCKSPLIT, MINSUP, SUPERGROUPS, CELLSUB, CELLSUPER, NONCHAR, COMMONSUBS, COMMONSUPER, INDEX, SUBGROUPS
Representation Theory Applications
- REPRES, Representations PG, Representations SG, Get_irreps, Get_mirreps, DIRPRO, CORREL, POINT, SITESYM, COMPATIBILITY RELATIONS, MECHANICAL REP, MAGNETIC REP, BANDREP
Solid State Theory Applications
- NEUTRON, SYMMODES, AMPLIMODES, PSEUDO, DOPE, TRANPATH, TENSORS, Check Topological Mat
Structure Utilities
- CELLTRAN, STRAIN, WPASSIGN, TRANSTRU, SETSTRU, EQUIVSTRU, STRCONVERT, VISUALIZE, COMPSTRU, STRUCTURE RELATIONS, PSEUDOLATTICE
Subperiodic Groups: Layer, Rod and Frieze Groups Retrieval Tools
- GENPOS, WPOS, MAXSUB, KVEC, SECTIONS, LSITESYM
IR, Raman and Hyper-Raman Scattering Tools
- SAM, RAMAN AND HYPER-RAMAN TENSORS, POLARIZATION SELECTION RULES, TWIN DOMAINS, CORRELATIONS POINTS, RAMAN CORRELATIONS SPACE, MORPHIC EFFECTS
Structure Databases
- The Bilbao Inconmensurate Crystal Structure Database (B-IncStrDB)
- The Magnetic Structure Database (MAGNDATA)
Point-group symmetry
- 2D GENPOS, 2D WYCKPOS, 3D GENPOS, 3D WYCKPOS
Plane-groups symmetry
- GENPOS, WYCKPPOS, MAXSUB
Double point and space groups
- DGENPOS, REPRESENTATIONS DPG, REPRESENTATIONS DSG, DSITESYM, DCOMPREL, BANDREP