Query 13 OPTIMADE Databases in One Request

OPTIMADE (Open Databases Integration for Materials Design) is a standardized REST API protocol for querying computational materials databases using a shared filter syntax. Thirteen databases currently support it, including Materials Project, AFLOW, OQMD, JARVIS-DFT, NOMAD, COD, TCOD, Materials Cloud, odbx, MPDS, and NREL Materials Database. The protocol was designed so that a single query string works uniformly across all participating databases. In practice, most researchers still open a separate browser tab for each one. ...

March 27, 2026 · Updated March 30, 2026 · 8 min · Alloybase