Hi Folks,

As some of you have noticed, the WebAtoms application stopped working on 
millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov a month or so ago.  We now have a start of an 
alternative at  
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/larixite__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZXQ2kUFpdV0HV2BeHhKF9ERcYZ6TtE1u0wvLQgHbH8NUFo5t9BrEkqK9_DUHiFFSEYT2zVxAj_OwPbKKkG8wmKam3B8j8iu9L5aw_Xk$
 

This uses PyMatGen to convert CIF files into Feff.inp files.  This includes a 
simple searchable interface to data collected from the American Mineralogist 
Crystal Structure Database 
(https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/AMS/amcsd.php__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZXQ2kUFpdV0HV2BeHhKF9ERcYZ6TtE1u0wvLQgHbH8NUFo5t9BrEkqK9_DUHiFFSEYT2zVxAj_OwPbKKkG8wmKam3B8j8iu9-ABau5k$
 ) of published mineral structures that has been included in xraylarch for some 
time. You can upload a CIF file – and most should work.

We expect to be able to add inputs for FDMNES soon, and we’re looking into 
formats for other calculations (say, Ocean) as well.  On a practical note, we 
thought it would be best to pull this code out of the main Larch repository and 
start a fresh project just for “working with crystallographic information and 
atomic clusters to generate inputs for XAS calculations”.   This code is now 
under 
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/xraypy/larixite__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZXQ2kUFpdV0HV2BeHhKF9ERcYZ6TtE1u0wvLQgHbH8NUFo5t9BrEkqK9_DUHiFFSEYT2zVxAj_OwPbKKkG8wmKam3B8j8iu9VhyDroc$
  (and does not rely on the larger xraylarch package).  At some point soon we 
plan to remove this code from xraylarch itself and use this project for that 
functionality.

This is all sort of new, so suggestions on any part of this and bug reports are 
most welcome.

--Matt

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