Who we are

The group behind MOF++ and what this resource is for.

MOF++ is maintained by the Computational Materials Chemistry group at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. It is the successor to MOF+, which has served net topologies, building blocks, framework structures and MOF-FF parameters to the reticular chemistry community for over a decade.

What this resource is for

Three audiences, weighted equally:

• Newcomers meeting metal-organic frameworks for the first time, who need to be able to find and understand a net without an account and without reading a paper first.
• Researchers who know what they want and need it in a form their tooling can consume.
• Contributors who generate data and deposit it, so that the next person does not repeat the work.

A resource that serves only the third group becomes an internal tool. One that serves only the first becomes a brochure.

What is different about this version

MOF++ is a full rewrite rather than an extension of the previous codebase. Deliberate changes:

• Search and download need no account.
• Force-field data has a place in the navigation, which it never had before, despite being one of the largest datasets here.
• Every record has a permanent URI and a machine-readable representation at the same address, with an explicit per-record licence.
• Documentation is versioned in the repository, not edited live in a database.
• Existing API clients keep working; both legacy endpoints are honoured as public contracts rather than treated as internal conveniences.

Contact

See Contact.