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Helper functions for species selection/conversion #190

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Luthaf opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 0 comments
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Helper functions for species selection/conversion #190

Luthaf opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 0 comments
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Luthaf commented May 30, 2023

It would be nice to provide functions to convert between atomic symbols and atomic number, than can then be used as selection with rascaline. Something like

selection = rascaline.species_selection("species_center", "Au")
selection = rascaline.species_selection("species_center", ["Au", "Li", "S"])
selection = rascaline.species_selection(["species_center", "species_neighbor"], [("Au", "Li"), ("Au", "Au")])
descriptor = calculator.compute(frames, selected_keys=selection)

# or even something like
descriptor.block(species_center=rascaline.species_index("Au")

# since the species assignment can depend on the frames origin
descriptor.block(species_center=rascaline.species_index("Au", origin="ASE")

This would workaround metatensor/metatensor#15 and make code a bit more readable.

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