The Materials Application Programming Interface (API): A simple, flexible and efficient API for materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles
Abstract
Here in this paper, we describe the Materials Application Programming Interface (API), a simple, flexible and efficient interface to programmatically query and interact with the Materials Project database based on the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) pattern for the web. Since its creation in Aug 2012, the Materials API has been the Materials Project's de facto platform for data access, supporting not only the Materials Project's many collaborative efforts but also enabling new applications and analyses. We will highlight some of these analyses enabled by the Materials API, particularly those requiring consolidation of data on a large number of materials, such as data mining of structural and property trends, and generation of phase diagrams. We will conclude with a discussion of the role of the API in building a community that is developing novel applications and analyses based on Materials Project data.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of NanoEngineering
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1512162
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1250304
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; EDCBEE
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Computational Materials Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0927-0256
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
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Ong, Shyue Ping, Cholia, Shreyas, Jain, Anubhav, Brafman, Miriam, Gunter, Dan, Ceder, Gerbrand, and Persson, Kristin A. The Materials Application Programming Interface (API): A simple, flexible and efficient API for materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.10.037.
Ong, Shyue Ping, Cholia, Shreyas, Jain, Anubhav, Brafman, Miriam, Gunter, Dan, Ceder, Gerbrand, & Persson, Kristin A. The Materials Application Programming Interface (API): A simple, flexible and efficient API for materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.10.037
Ong, Shyue Ping, Cholia, Shreyas, Jain, Anubhav, Brafman, Miriam, Gunter, Dan, Ceder, Gerbrand, and Persson, Kristin A. Sun .
"The Materials Application Programming Interface (API): A simple, flexible and efficient API for materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.10.037. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1512162.
@article{osti_1512162,
title = {The Materials Application Programming Interface (API): A simple, flexible and efficient API for materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles},
author = {Ong, Shyue Ping and Cholia, Shreyas and Jain, Anubhav and Brafman, Miriam and Gunter, Dan and Ceder, Gerbrand and Persson, Kristin A.},
abstractNote = {Here in this paper, we describe the Materials Application Programming Interface (API), a simple, flexible and efficient interface to programmatically query and interact with the Materials Project database based on the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) pattern for the web. Since its creation in Aug 2012, the Materials API has been the Materials Project's de facto platform for data access, supporting not only the Materials Project's many collaborative efforts but also enabling new applications and analyses. We will highlight some of these analyses enabled by the Materials API, particularly those requiring consolidation of data on a large number of materials, such as data mining of structural and property trends, and generation of phase diagrams. We will conclude with a discussion of the role of the API in building a community that is developing novel applications and analyses based on Materials Project data.},
doi = {10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.10.037},
journal = {Computational Materials Science},
number = C,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}
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