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Avogadro (software)

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Development status
  
Active

Written in
  
C++ (Qt)

Avogadro (software)

Initial release
  
February 29, 2008; 8 years ago (2008-02-29)

Stable release
  
Avogadro 1.1.1 / December 11, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-12-11)

Preview release
  
Avogadro 2 0.8.0 / August 17, 2015; 17 months ago (2015-08-17)

Repository
  
sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro

Avogadro is a molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It is extensible via a plugin architecture.

Features

  • Molecule builder-editor for Windows, Linux, Unix, and macOS.
  • All source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
  • Supported languages include: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
  • Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.
  • Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
  • OpenBabel import of files, input generation for multiple computational chemistry packages, X-ray crystallography, and biomolecules.

    • References

    Avogadro (software) Wikipedia
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