Require comparison to other common, related packages in paper
Description
Besides the requirements of the project, the paper does not describe comparison to other similar software packages or related projects.
From my own experience, I see a relation to other materials simulation workflow softwares:
- The Materials Project has a similar interface but for entries from its database, less on editing your own scripts that GIMS provides
- Similarly, NOMAD Laboratory is similar to the Materials Project. I feel that the authors should expand on the relation of GIMS to NOMAD Laboratory since this is the authors lab. Would be nice to see how this will be incorporated into the current projects.
- Avogadro has similar capabilities but not as a web-based platform
I do not require all of these to be included but just trying to give examples. No need to provide an exhaustive list, just some comparison is required. I do believe NOMAD is probably the most important and relevant, though, give the two projects' relation.
This falls under the State of the field requirement:
Do the authors describe how this software compares to other commonly-used packages?
This issue is essential as part of my review for JOSS.