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Not for superconductivity specifically, but for a broad range of properties of crystals, this is what the Materials Project[0] does. Materials Project is funded by the US Departmen…

This would be a much bigger conversation, the SQLite efforts are very cool. Short answer to your question is that the API load should be fine (I regularly download large subsets of…

Thanks both for the appreciation, it's really nice to see! Will forward to the team :)

hi Alex! :)

Absolutely, yes. Materials Project runs a service called "MPComplete" where people can submit structures to "help complete the database." There's an API, or we're working on a new …

No, I was not aware, thanks for reporting! Have we missed a link somewhere? Docs link is https://docs.materialsproject.org and is online.

In the short (~decade) term, we do tape backups of calculation data in Berkeley, and offload data to an independently-funded European project (NOMAD), to ensure data is in at least…

> Is there any way I could use this to see if there was merit in that idea? It likely can't give you an instant answer, but it can be a good starting point for a research project. …

It is aimed at inorganic materials in general, and many of the calculations are bootstrapped from existing experimental crystal databases. However, this is not to say there aren't …

> How do projects like this deal with papers published based on falsified data? Do they reproduce any of the source data themselves? I can't speak to this specific instance, but Ma…

I would agree with your comment, but I think it's fair to ask this question. Discovering new materials can have many unintended consequences, especially if they contain elements th…

Yes, this is almost exclusively a computational resource, with the exception of experimental data contributed by third parties. Most of our compute comes from the lovely people at …

We have a mechanism for upload of experimental data (MPContribs[0]), that can then be linked back to the Materials Project's "material detail pages" for a given material. This also…

There are a few differences, but broadly MatWeb is more useful for manufacturing and has a broader range of materials available (including plastics, extensive metallic alloys, etc.…

Hi everyone, fun to see The Materials Project make the front page! I work on this, happy to answer any questions.

Materials Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Web Developer | Berkeley, CA, USA | Onsite | https://materialsproject.org https://lbl.gov Mission: We are a group of acad…

Hey Matthew! Small world :)

> I love the API for the materials project! Ah, so happy it's useful to you! We're working on a new API internally too (based on FastAPI) that will hopefully bring better documenta…

For anyone interested in symmetry specifically, there's also the ISOTROPY Software Suite ( https://stokes.byu.edu/iso/isotropy.php ) which offers some nice tools.

For crystallography specifically, there's ourselves (Materials Project), OQMD, AFLOW, Materials Cloud, JARVIS, and a number of more specific (but no less important) specialized dat…

Love COD, very nice to see them on the front page :-) Along similar lines, we maintain an open database of crystal structures ourselves at the Materials Project (materialsproject.o…

Thanks for the kind comment :) It's a very inspiring place with a lot of history and good people. Beautiful views of the bay certainly don't hurt either!

Materials Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Web Developer | Berkeley, CA, USA | Onsite | https://materialsproject.org https://lbl.gov Mission: We are a group of acad…

Thanks! Fixed link: https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/web-developer-1934