  Since the announcement in 2011 of the Materials Genome Initiative by the
Obama administration, much attention has been given to the subject of materials
design to accelerate the discovery of new materials that could have
technological implications. Although having its biggest impact for more applied
materials like batteries, there is increasing interest in applying these ideas
to predict new superconductors. This is obviously a challenge, given that
superconductivity is a many body phenomenon, with whole classes of known
superconductors lacking a quantitative theory. Given this caveat, various
efforts to formulate materials design principles for superconductors are
reviewed here, with a focus on surveying the periodic table in an attempt to
identify cuprate analogues.
