pyriodic-aflow 0.1.1

Pyriodic adapter to the AFLOW project crystal prototype database

Introduction

pyriodic-aflow is an adapter that makes the crystal prototypes found in the AFLOW project available using the API of the pyriodic python library.

This project is not affiliated with AFLOW and merely provides a streamlined way to access the data using a python interface.

Installation

Install pyriodic-aflow from source:

pip install git+https://github.com/klarh/pyriodic-aflow

Citation

The AFLOW developers request that you cite the following papers when using data from their database:

• M. J. Mehl, D. Hicks, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 1, Comp. Mat. Sci. 136, S1-S828 (2017). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.01.017)
• D. Hicks, M. J. Mehl, E. Gossett, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 2, Comp. Mat. Sci. 161, S1-S1011 (2019). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.10.043)