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 | |
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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 |