Avogadro Software
About
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. The most important features of this software are:
- 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
Download
Avogadro is distributed as a free software. The current version for Windows, Linux and MacOSX operating systems can be downloaded from this link.
Citation
The preferred way to cite Avogadro is :
Hanwell, M. D., Curtis, D. E., Lonie, D. C., Vandermeersch, T., Zurek, E., & Hutchison, G. R. (2012). Avogadro: an advanced semantic chemical editor, visualization, and analysis platform. Journal of Cheminformatics, 4(1), 17. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-4-17.