Forge is the Materials Data Facility Python package to interface and leverage the MDF Data Discovery service. Forge allows users to perform simple queries and facilitiates moving and synthesizing results.
pip install mdf_forge
git clone https://github.com/materials-data-facility/forge.git
cd forge
pip install -e .
Forge documentation can be found on Read the Docs and GitHub.
Tutorials and examples can be found in the docs directory. The Jupyter notebooks can be viewed on GitHub or run interactively with Jupyter.
- Forge requires Python 3.5 or greater.
- To access data in the MDF, you must have an account recognized by Globus Auth (including Google, ORCiD, many academic institutions, or a free Globus ID).
If you find a bug or want a feature, feel free to open an issue here on GitHub (and please tag it accordingly). If you want to contribute code yourself, we're more than happy to accept pull requests. Please direct these pull requests to the forge-dev branch
This work was performed under financial assistance award 70NANB14H012 from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of the Center for Hierarchical Material Design (CHiMaD). This work was performed under the following financial assistance award 70NANB19H005 from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD). This work was also supported by the National Science Foundation as part of the Midwest Big Data Hub under NSF Award Number: 1636950 "BD Spokes: SPOKE: MIDWEST: Collaborative: Integrative Materials Design (IMaD): Leverage, Innovate, and Disseminate".