Avogadro (software)
Molecular builder/editor software
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Avogadro is a molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.[1][2][3][4] It is extensible via a plugin architecture.[5]
Initial releaseFebruary 29, 2008
Stable release
2.0.0
/ 1 April 2026
| Avogadro | |
|---|---|
Avogadro logo | |
| Initial release | February 29, 2008 |
| Stable release | 2.0.0
/ 1 April 2026 |
| Written in | C++ (Qt) |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Unix, Windows |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Size | 85.3 MB |
| Available in | 14 languages |
List of languages Chinese, English, French, Hungarian, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian | |
| Type | Molecule editor |
| License | GPL v2 |
| Website | avogadro |
| Repository | github |
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, Spanish, and Polish.
- 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.
See also
- Molden
- Gabedit
- Molekel
- PyMol
- Jmol
- RasMol
- SAMSON
- UCSF Chimera
- Molecular design software
- List of quantum chemistry and solid state physics software
- List of molecular graphics systems
- Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
- Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment (ECCE)
- Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD)
- Ghemical
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