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Project summary

Materials Cloud is built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data. These underpin published results and empower data-based discovery, compliant with data management plans and the FAIR principles.

By sharing their scientific results on Materials Cloud, researchers can make them

• Comprehensive: Share not only the input/output files of your calculations but entire workflows and provenance graphs.
• Downloadable: Download individual files or entire databases at the click of a button.
• Browsable: Browse and query calculations directly from a web browser.
• Repurposable: Download and import any database and start your calculations from where the original authors left off.

Materials Cloud is powered by AiiDA, an open-source python infrastructure to manage and persist the ever-growing amount and complexity of workflows and data in computational science.

Partners

consortium of partners

Project results

Materials Cloud aims to be a community platform for open science, offering educational, research, and archiving tools; simulation software and services; and curated and raw data.

Its vision nucleated in 2010, with the FET MARVEL Flagship Proposal, and took shape in 2013, with the SNSF MARVEL NCCR, and in 2015, with the H2020 MaX Centre of Excellence.