mkhorton

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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 Department of Energy and uses supercomputing to simulate hundreds of
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 the database myself via the API for research purposes), alt
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by mkhorton 4y ago
Thanks both for the appreciation, it's really nice to see! Will forward to the team :)
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by mkhorton 4y ago
hi Alex! :)
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 drag-and-drop interface on the
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by mkhorton 4y ago
No, I was not aware, thanks for reporting! Have we missed a link somewhere? Docs link is https://docs.materialsproject.org and is online.
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 two locations. Likewise, our production databases are autom
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by mkhorton 4y ago
> 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. For example, Materials Project has information about
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 some biases. A lot of the Materials Project collaborato
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by mkhorton 4y ago
> 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 Materials Project does try to pay close attention to q
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 that are not earth abundant or have high costs (environme
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 NERSC[0]. All our predictions are benchmarked against experi
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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 then provides a public API for bulk download
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by mkhorton 4y ago
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.) and real world properties. These are materials you might p
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by mkhorton 4y ago
Hi everyone, fun to see The Materials Project make the front page! I work on this, happy to answer any questions.
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by mkhorton 6y ago
Materials Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Web Developer | Berkeley, CA, USA | Onsite | https://materialsproject.org https://lbl.gov Mission: We are a group of academic researchers who create and cura
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by mkhorton 6y ago
Hey Matthew! Small world :)
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by mkhorton 6y ago
> 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 documentation along with it, so stay tuned for improveme
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by mkhorton 6y ago
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.
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by mkhorton 6y ago
For crystallography specifically, there's ourselves (Materials Project), OQMD, AFLOW, Materials Cloud, JARVIS, and a number of more specific (but no less important) specialized databases. There are also a number of commercial offerings
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by mkhorton 6y ago
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.org) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, which includes high-q
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by mkhorton 6y ago
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!
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by mkhorton 6y ago
Materials Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Web Developer | Berkeley, CA, USA | Onsite | https://materialsproject.org https://lbl.gov Mission: We are a group of academic researchers who create and cura
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by mkhorton 7y ago
Thanks! Fixed link: https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/web-developer-1934
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by mkhorton 7y ago
You can read Berkeley Lab's policy on drug testing here: https://commons.lbl.gov/display/rpm2/Workplace+Substance+Abu...
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by mkhorton 7y ago
My co-worker found his current job from a HN post a number of years ago. Also we're currently hiring so check us out :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20327435
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by mkhorton 7y ago
Hi, I'm also a member of the team here and we're really excited to hear from any applicants. Please be in touch :) -- Matt