Skip to main content

Python Materials Genomics is a robust materials analysis code that defines core object representations for structures and molecules with support for many electronic structure codes. It is currently the core analysis code powering the Materials Project (https://www.materialsproject.org).

Project description

Official docs: http://pymatgen.org

Pymatgen (Python Materials Genomics) is a robust, open-source Python library for materials analysis. These are some of the main features:

  1. Highly flexible classes for the representation of Element, Site, Molecule, Structure objects.
  2. Extensive input/output support, including support for VASP, ABINIT, CIF, Gaussian, XYZ, and many other file formats.
  3. Powerful analysis tools, including generation of phase diagrams, Pourbaix diagrams, diffusion analyses, reactions, etc.
  4. Electronic structure analyses, such as density of states and band structure.
  5. Integration with the Materials Project REST API.

Pymatgen is free to use. However, we also welcome your help to improve this library by making your own contributions. These contributions can be in the form of additional tools or modules you develop, or feature requests and bug reports. Please report any bugs and issues at pymatgen's [Github page] (https://github.com/materialsproject/pymatgen). For help with any pymatgen issues, please use the Discourse page.

Why use pymatgen?

There are many materials analysis codes out there, both commerical and free, but pymatgen offer several advantages:

  1. It is (fairly) robust. Pymatgen is used by thousands of researchers, and is the analysis code powering the Materials Project. The analysis it produces survives rigorous scrutiny every single day. Bugs tend to be found and corrected quickly. Pymatgen also uses CircleCI and Appveyor for continuous integration on the Linux and Windows platforms, respectively, which ensures that every commit passes a comprehensive suite of unittests.
  2. It is well documented. A fairly comprehensive documentation has been written to help you get to grips with it quickly.
  3. It is open. You are free to use and contribute to pymatgen. It also means that pymatgen is continuously being improved. We will attribute any code you contribute to any publication you specify. Contributing to pymatgen means your research becomes more visible, which translates to greater impact.
  4. It is fast. Many of the core numerical methods in pymatgen have been optimized by vectorizing in numpy/scipy. This means that coordinate manipulations are extremely fast and are in fact comparable to codes written in other languages. Pymatgen also comes with a complete system for handling periodic boundary conditions.
  5. It will be around. Pymatgen is not a pet research project. It is used in the well-established Materials Project. It is also actively being developed and maintained by the Materials Virtual Lab, the ABINIT group and many other research groups.

With effect from version 2019.1.1, pymatgen only supports Python 3.x. Users who require Python 2.7 should install pymatgen v2018.x.

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

pymatgen-2019.5.8.tar.gz (2.1 MB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

pymatgen-2019.5.8-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_7_x86_64.whl (2.6 MB view details)

Uploaded CPython 3.7m macOS 10.7+ x86-64

File details

Details for the file pymatgen-2019.5.8.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: pymatgen-2019.5.8.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 2.1 MB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/1.12.1 pkginfo/1.4.2 requests/2.19.1 setuptools/40.4.3 requests-toolbelt/0.8.0 tqdm/4.26.0 CPython/3.7.0

File hashes

Hashes for pymatgen-2019.5.8.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 a1a4fce2a7d31e51805023b9a6b6d68827f6ca0ab81a17170ca8cb79c90e9417
MD5 e7301f1daa378bea98f217564f2350f3
BLAKE2b-256 30bbea22b88a24567e121b536db731d69f7450976aa152a8071e9e3672db6739

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file pymatgen-2019.5.8-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_7_x86_64.whl.

File metadata

  • Download URL: pymatgen-2019.5.8-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_7_x86_64.whl
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 2.6 MB
  • Tags: CPython 3.7m, macOS 10.7+ x86-64
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/1.12.1 pkginfo/1.4.2 requests/2.19.1 setuptools/40.4.3 requests-toolbelt/0.8.0 tqdm/4.26.0 CPython/3.7.0

File hashes

Hashes for pymatgen-2019.5.8-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_7_x86_64.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 1c9a9cb12b3e71de651f8be7b05eceababf1ecfbf4dedfdf05d0f9b439ac94b9
MD5 3b4651b8c72a9d3803f409bfd112dee8
BLAKE2b-256 2afa9ab307086dedd53d51c4c72be84c3e0168b89828feafef802085ce13fdca

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page