PRISM builds on the work of many open-source projects and public data providers.
We gratefully acknowledge the following communities and teams.
Provider
Description
Access
OPTIMADE
Open Materials Database API standard; 40+ federated providers
Federation API
Materials Project
Comprehensive computed materials properties (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Native API
OQMD
Open Quantum Materials Database (Northwestern University)
OPTIMADE
AFLOW
Automatic FLOW for Materials Discovery (Duke University)
OPTIMADE
COD
Crystallography Open Database
OPTIMADE
JARVIS
Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations (NIST)
OPTIMADE
Materials Cloud
Open research data platform (EPFL / MARVEL)
OPTIMADE
OMAT24
Open Materials 2024 dataset (Meta FAIR)
HuggingFace
arXiv
Open-access scientific preprints (Cornell University)
Public API
Semantic Scholar
Academic search and citation analysis (Allen AI)
Public API
Lens.org
Patent and scholarly literature search (Cambia)
API
Simulation & Thermodynamics
Project
Description
License
pyiron
Integrated development environment for computational materials science
BSD 3-Clause
pyiron_base
Job management, HDF5 storage, HPC queue integration
BSD 3-Clause
pyiron_atomistics
Atomistic simulation wrappers (LAMMPS, VASP, Sphinx, GPAW)
BSD 3-Clause
pyiron_workflow
DAG-based computational workflow engine
BSD 3-Clause
pycalphad
CALPHAD equilibrium calculations and phase diagrams
MIT
ASE
Atomic Simulation Environment (DTU)
LGPL 2.1+
Machine Learning & Feature Engineering
Project
Description
License
scikit-learn
Machine learning algorithms (Random Forest, GBR, Linear)
BSD 3-Clause
XGBoost
Gradient boosting framework
Apache 2.0
LightGBM
Light gradient boosting (Microsoft)
MIT
Optuna
Hyperparameter optimization framework
MIT
pymatgen
Materials analysis library (Materials Project)
MIT
matminer
Materials feature engineering (LBNL)
MIT
MatGL
Pre-trained GNNs: M3GNet, MEGNet, CHGNet, TensorNet (UC San Diego)
BSD 3-Clause
CrabNet
Transformer model for composition-based property prediction
MIT
Project
Description
License
Click
CLI framework
BSD 3-Clause
Rich
Terminal formatting, tables, panels, spinners
MIT
prompt_toolkit
Interactive terminal input
BSD 3-Clause
FastMCP
Model Context Protocol server framework
MIT
pandas
Data analysis and manipulation
BSD 3-Clause
matplotlib
Plotting and visualization
PSF
SQLAlchemy
Database ORM
MIT
httpx
Async HTTP client
BSD 3-Clause
tenacity
Retry with exponential backoff
Apache 2.0
HuggingFace Datasets
Dataset streaming and loading
Apache 2.0
Provider
SDK
License
Anthropic (Claude)
anthropic
MIT
OpenAI (GPT)
openai
MIT
Google (Gemini)
google-cloud-aiplatform
Apache 2.0
OpenRouter
via openai SDK
N/A (service)
Premium Lab Service Partners
Partner
Service
Category
Berkeley Lab A-Lab
Autonomous solid-state synthesis (Ceder Group)
A-Labs
Kebotix
ChemOS automated R&D platform
A-Labs
Matlantis
Universal neural network potential (Preferred Networks)
Cloud DFT
Mat3ra
Cloud materials simulation platform
Cloud DFT
HQS Quantum Simulations
Quantum chemistry simulation toolkit
Quantum
AQT
Trapped-ion quantum computing (ARNICA)
Quantum
SSRL/SLAC
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Synchrotron
Project
Description
License
Markdown
Markdown to HTML conversion
BSD 3-Clause
WeasyPrint
HTML to PDF rendering
BSD 3-Clause
PRISM is developed by MARC27 -- ESA SPARK Prime Contractor, ITER Supplier.