The ColabFit Exchange: Data for Advanced Materials Science


ColabFit Paper

Published October 2023:
J. A. Vita, E. G. Fuemmeler, A. Gupta, G. P. Wolfe, A. Q. Tao, R. S. Elliott, S. Martiniani, E. B. Tadmor, "ColabFit exchange: Open-access datasets for data-driven interatomic potentials", Journal of Chemical Physics, 159, 154802 (2023). doi:10.1063/5.0163882


The ColabFit Exchange is a KIM Initiative project. It is the largest database of its kind, providing open access to a large collection of heterogeneous but systematically organized datasets that are especially designed for data-driven interatomic potential (DDIP) development. Each curated dataset is internally represented according to the ColabFit Standard and can be accessed online, via the ColabFit CLI, or through the KLIFF DDIP fitting package. The ColabFit Exchange, along with the other KIM Initiative projects, addresses a pressing need in the molecular simulation community—ensuring science is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible."