Avogadro - Free cross-platform molecular editor (original) (raw)

Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.

• Cross-Platform: Molecular builder/editor for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
• Free, Open Source: Easy to install and all source code and documentation is available to modify or extend.
• International: Translations into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and others, with more languages to come.
• Intuitive: Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.
• Fast: Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.
• Extensible: Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
• Flexible: Features include Open Babel import of chemical files, input generation for multiple computational chemistry packages, crystallography, and biomolecules.
• How to cite Avogadro: The Avogadro Paper

News

• January 15, 2022: New Avogadro2 Development Website
• September 13, 2021: Google Summer of Code '21: Biomolecular Visualization and Layers
• August 16, 2021: Avogadro 1.95 Released
• July 28, 2021: Results from 2021 Community Survey
• August 25, 2018: 2018 Avogadro UGM Materials