The MolSSI QCArchive Project: An Open-Source Platform to Compute, Organize, and Share Quantum Chemistry Data

05 March 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

The Molecular Sciences Software Institute's (MolSSI) Quantum Chemistry Archive (QCArchive) project is an umbrella name that covers both a central server hosted by MolSSI for community data and the Python-based software infrastructure that powers automated computation and storage of quantum chemistry results.
The MolSSI-hosted central server provides the computational molecular sciences community a location to freely access tens of millions of quantum chemistry computations for machine learning, methodology assessment, force-field fitting, and more through a Python interface.
Facile, user-friendly mining of the centrally archived quantum chemical data also can be achieved through web applications found at https://qcarchive.molssi.org.
The software infrastructure can be used as a standalone platform to compute, structure, and distribute hundreds of millions of quantum chemistry computations for individuals or groups of researchers at any scale.
The QCArchive Infrastructure is open-source (BSD-3C), code repositories can be found at https://github.com/MolSSI, and releases can be downloaded via PyPI and Conda.

Keywords

data
database resource
Distributed computing
Open Source Workflow Management System
Jupyter notebook
software layer
Github Projects

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