What problem does it solve?
Non-VASP IO tasks in materials science workflows are scattered across formats and codes; this skill centralizes CIF/XYZ/Gaussian/OpenBabel IO and adapters to CP2K, QE, Q-Chem, ABINIT, LAMMPS, FEFF, NWChem, Wannier90, phonopy, ShengBTE, etc., enabling easier data exchange.
Core Features & Use Cases
- IO for CIF, XYZ, Gaussian, and adapters (ASE/OpenBabel when installed).
- Interfaces to non-VASP codes: Q-Chem, CP2K, Quantum Espresso (QE), ABINIT, LAMMPS, FEFF, NWChem, Wannier90.
- Convert external formats to pymatgen Structure or Molecule objects.
- Use cases include reading online structure data via Materials Project and converting formats for simulation pipelines.
Quick Start
Install pymatgen and begin parsing CIF/XYZ/Gaussian files with the appropriate pymatgen.io modules to obtain Structure or Molecule objects.