Table 2 Functionalities of comparison codes specific to high-throughput analysis and structure prototyping. This tabulation is not exhaustive; many programs offer additional analyses, such as fragment/molecular comparisons, and are outside the scope of this work. 1: optional symmetry input. 2: requires symmetry input. 3: Structure Matcher matches magnetic structures with opposite spins (SpinComparator function). 4: Structure Matcher compares to the AFLOW Prototype Encyclopedia partially, as it does not provide the internal degrees of freedom for the prototype.

From: AFLOW-XtalFinder: a reliable choice to identify crystalline prototypes

 

AFLOW-XtalFinder

Structure Matcher

XTALCOMP

SPAP

CMPZ

CRYCOM

STRUCTURE-TIDY

COMPSTRU

Source-code available

x

x

x

     

Prototyping tools

x

       

Consider symmetry

x

   

x1

x2

x2

x2

Perform multiple comparisons

x

x

      

Material-type comparisons

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Structure-type comparisons

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Decoration-type comparisons

x

       

Magnetic-type comparisons

x

x3

      

Compare to database

x

       

Compare to prototypes

x

x4

      

Quantitative similarity metric

x

x

 

x

x

x

x

x