Integrated materials design and informatics platform within the materials genome framework

The fundamental idea of materials genome initiative is the integration of computing platform, experimental platform, and data platform to speed up the material innovation hence reduce time and cost. This paper describes the basic concept of building an integrated computational platform and data platform for material innovation from the perspective of high-throughput simulation and materials knowledge management. The material data platform that can integrate material database, heterogeneous material data, various scripts, and open-source material simulation code together is particularly discussed. Taking metallic materials as an example, a brief introduction to metallic materials data management is given, and how to manage the semi-structure and unstructured iron and steel material data is also presented.