Alloybase Is Live: Search, Curate, and Cite Materials Data in One Place
The Fragmentation Problem in Computational Materials Data Materials Project, AFLOW, OQMD, and JARVIS-DFT each expose different APIs, different schemas, and different filter syntaxes. Querying all four for the same material requires four browser tabs, four query languages, and a spreadsheet to reconcile the results. That spreadsheet loses context fast. Which provider returned this formation energy value? What query produced this row? When was it fetched? Copy-paste between tabs strips that information silently, and you only notice when a reviewer asks for your data sources six months later. ...