| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Size | 932 NEB relaxation trajectories |
| Reaction Types | Desorptions, Dissociations, Transfers |
| Purpose | Transition state energy calculations |
| Paper | CatTSunami (arXiv) |
| License | CC-BY-4.0 |
Overview¶
This is a validation dataset which was used to assess model performance in CatTSunami: Accelerating Transition State Energy Calculations with Pre-trained Graph Neural Networks. It is comprised of 932 NEB relaxation trajectories. There are three different types of reactions represented: desorptions, dissociations, and transfers. NEB calculations allow us to find transition states. The rate of reaction is determined by the transition state energy, so access to transition states is very important for catalysis research. For more information, check out the paper.
File Structure and Contents¶
The tar file contains 3 subdirectories: dissociations, desorptions, and transfers. As the names imply, these directories contain the converged DFT trajectories for each of the reaction classes. Within these directories, the trajectories are named to identify the contents of the file. Here is an example and the anatomy of the name:
desorption_id_83_2409_9_111-4_neb1.0.traj
desorptionindicates the reaction type (dissociation and transfer are the other possibilities)ididentifies that the material belongs to the validation in domain split (ood - out of domain is th e other possibility)83is the task id. This does not provide relavent information2409is the bulk index of the bulk used in the ocdata bulk pickle file9is the reaction index. for each reaction type there is a reaction pickle file in the repository. In this case it is the 9th entry to that pickle file111-4the first 3 numbers are the miller indices (i.e. the (1,1,1) surface), and the last number cooresponds to the shift value. In this case the 4th shift enumerated was the one used.neb1.0the number here indicates the k value used. For the full dataset, 1.0 was used so this does not distiguish any of the trajectories from one another.
The content of these trajectory files is the repeating frame sets. Despite the initial and final frames not being optimized during the NEB, the initial and final frames are saved for every iteration in the trajectory. For the dataset, 10 frames were used - 8 which were optimized over the neb. So the length of the trajectory is the number of iterations (N) * 10. If you wanted to look at the frame set prior to optimization and the optimized frame set, you could get them like this:
from __future__ import annotations
!wget https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/opencatalystproject/data/large_files/desorption_id_83_2409_9_111-4_neb1.0.traj
from ase.io import read
traj = read("desorption_id_83_2409_9_111-4_neb1.0.traj", ":")
unrelaxed_frames = traj[0:10]
relaxed_frames = traj[-10:]--2026-06-08 20:09:35-- https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/opencatalystproject/data/large_files/desorption_id_83_2409_9_111-4_neb1.0.traj
Resolving dl.fbaipublicfiles.com (dl.fbaipublicfiles.com)... 13.249.74.24, 13.249.74.36, 13.249.74.75, ...
Connecting to dl.fbaipublicfiles.com (dl.fbaipublicfiles.com)|13.249.74.24|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10074935 (9.6M) [binary/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘desorption_id_83_2409_9_111-4_neb1.0.traj’
desorptio 0%[ ] 0 --.-KB/s desorption 69%[============> ] 6.69M 15.0MB/s desorption_id_83_24 100%[===================>] 9.61M 16.6MB/s in 0.6s
2026-06-08 20:09:36 (16.6 MB/s) - ‘desorption_id_83_2409_9_111-4_neb1.0.traj’ saved [10074935/10074935]
Download¶
| Splits | Size of compressed version (in bytes) | Size of uncompressed version (in bytes) | MD5 checksum (download link) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASE Trajectories | 1.5G | 6.3G | 52af34a93758c82fae951e52af445089 |
Use¶
One more note: We have not prepared an lmdb for this dataset. This is because it is NEB calculations are not supported directly in ocp. You must use the ase native OCP class along with ase infrastructure to run NEB calculations. Here is an example of a use:
import os
from ase.io import read
from ase.mep import DyNEB
from ase.optimize import BFGS
from fairchem.core import FAIRChemCalculator, pretrained_mlip
traj = read("desorption_id_83_2409_9_111-4_neb1.0.traj", ":")
images = traj[0:10]
predictor = pretrained_mlip.get_predict_unit("uma-s-1p2")
neb = DyNEB(images, k=1)
for image in images:
image.calc = FAIRChemCalculator(predictor, task_name="oc20")
optimizer = BFGS(
neb,
trajectory="neb.traj",
)
# Use a small number of steps here to keep the docs fast during CI, but otherwise do quite reasonable settings.
fast_docs = os.environ.get("FAST_DOCS", "false").lower() == "true"
if fast_docs:
optimization_steps = 20
else:
optimization_steps = 300
conv = optimizer.run(fmax=0.45, steps=optimization_steps)
if conv:
neb.climb = True
conv = optimizer.run(fmax=0.05, steps=optimization_steps)WARNING:root:device was not explicitly set, using device='cuda'.
/home/runner/work/_tool/Python/3.12.13/x64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ase/mep/neb.py:329: UserWarning: The default method has changed from 'aseneb' to 'improvedtangent'. The 'aseneb' method is an unpublished, custom implementation that is not recommended as it frequently results in very poor bands. Please explicitly set method='improvedtangent' to silence this warning, or set method='aseneb' if you strictly require the old behavior (results may vary). See: https://gitlab.com/ase/ase/-/merge_requests/3952
warnings.warn(
Step Time Energy fmax
BFGS: 0 20:10:01 -305.702818 5.240339
BFGS: 1 20:10:05 -305.626493 11.579490
BFGS: 2 20:10:14 -305.852107 1.880921
BFGS: 3 20:10:18 -305.868541 2.642308
BFGS: 4 20:10:23 -305.945518 2.276070
BFGS: 5 20:10:29 -305.943729 6.797751
BFGS: 6 20:10:34 -306.192783 9.295370
BFGS: 7 20:10:38 -306.167308 3.395487
BFGS: 8 20:10:43 -306.230168 4.795724
BFGS: 9 20:10:46 -306.255480 0.709466
BFGS: 10 20:10:54 -306.269530 0.620414
BFGS: 11 20:11:00 -306.299086 1.588200
BFGS: 12 20:11:08 -306.353737 1.869445
BFGS: 13 20:11:14 -306.385075 0.461424
BFGS: 14 20:11:17 -306.423203 0.726182
BFGS: 15 20:11:23 -306.461791 1.994966
BFGS: 16 20:11:29 -306.472102 0.836322
BFGS: 17 20:11:36 -306.483195 0.476294
BFGS: 18 20:11:39 -306.503261 0.974721
BFGS: 19 20:11:49 -306.523568 1.274881
BFGS: 20 20:11:53 -306.533002 0.818004