Materials Cloud three-dimensional crystals database is a curated set of computationally relaxed three-dimensional crystal structures and calculated properties. The crystal structures originate from experimental databases.

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This is a curated set of relaxed three-dimensional crystal structures based on raw CIF data taken from the external experimental databases MPDS[1], COD[2] and ICSD[3]. The raw CIF data have been imported, cleaned[10] and parsed[6][7] into a crystal structure; their ground-state has been computed using the SIRIUS-enabled[9] pw.x code of the Quantum ESPRESSO[8] distribution, and tight tolerance criteria for the calculations using the SSSP protocols[11][12].

This entire procedure is encoded into an AiiDA[4][5] workflow which automates the process while keeping full data provenance. Here, since the original source data of the ICSD and MPDS databases are copyrighted, only the provenance of the final SCF calculation on the relaxed structures can be made publicly available.

The MC3D ID numbers come from a list of unique "parent" stoichiometric structures that has been created and curated from a collection of several experimental databases. Once a parent structure has been optimized using density-functional theory, it is made public and added to the online Discover section of the Materials Cloud (copyrights might prevent publishing the original parent). Note that since not all structures have been calculated, some ID numbers are missing from the public version of the database. The full ID of each structure also contains as an appended modifier the functional that was used in the calculations. Since the ID number points to the same unique parent, mc3d-1234/pbe and mc3d-1234/pbesol have the same starting point, but have been then relaxed according to their respective functionals.

Acknowledgements
External databases of source CIF data
[1] The Pauling File http://paulingfile.com/ exposed through the Materials Platform for Data Science https://mpds.io/.
[2] S. Gražulis et al. Crystallography open database (COD): an open-access collection of crystal structures and platform for world-wide collaboration. Nucleic Acids Research, 40:D420-D427, 2012, http://www.crystallography.net.
[3] Inorganic Crystal Structure Database, http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.com/icsd.html.
Software
[4] S. P. Huber et al. AiiDA 1.0, a scalable computational infrastructure for automated reproducible workflows and data provenance. Sci Data 7, 300, 2020. http://www.aiida.net.
[5] G. Pizzi et al. AiiDA: Automated Interactive Infrastructure and Database for Computational Science. Computational Materials Science, 111:218-230, 2016.
[6] S. P. Ong et al. Python materials genomics (pymatgen): A robust, open-source python library for materials analysis. Computational Materials Science, 68:314-319, 2013.
[7] A. Togo. Spglib. https://spglib.readthedocs.io/.
[8] P. Giannozzi et al. Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29:465901, 2017.
[10] A. Merkys et al. COD::CIF::Parser: an error-correcting CIF parser for the Perl language Journal of Applied Crystallography 49 (2016)
Pseudopotentials and protocols
[11] G. Prandini, A. Marrazzo, I. E. Castelli, N. Mounet and N. Marzari, npj Computational Materials 4, 72 (2018). http://www.materialscloud.org/sssp/
[12] SSSP protocol for the calculation of structural and thermodynamical properties of inorganic materials, Nicolas Hoermann et al., to be published.
Funding partners
This project is made possible by support from the European Centre of Excellence MaX “Materials design at the Exascale” (grant no. 824143), the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC), and with HPC allocations from PRACE (project id 2020225458) and CSCS (project id s854).

This section contains an overview of our REST APIs to access the MC3D data.

1. Materials Cloud and AiiDA REST APIs
The MC3D frontend is running on:
2. OPTIMADE REST API
The MC3D database can also be accessed via an API following the OPTIMADE specification. This currently only includes the crystal structures and no properties or provenance information is provided. Relevant endpoints are