Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
Avogadro 2
Introduction
Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in
computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science,
and related areas. It offers flexible rendering and a powerful plugin
architecture.
Core features and goals of the Avogadro project include:
- Open source distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license
- Cross platform with builds on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
- Intuitive interface designed to be useful to whole community
- Fast and efficient embracing the latest technologies
- Extensible, making extensive use of a plugin architecture
- Flexible supporting a range of chemical data formats and packages
The code in this repository is a rewrite of Avogadro with source
code split across a
libraries repository
and an application repository.
The new code architecture provides a high-performance rendering engine, modern
code development, and significantly improved speed and stability.
Avogadro 2 is being developed as part of the Open Chemistry
project by an open community, and was started at Kitware as
an open source community project. The Avogadro 1.x series currently has more
features, and can be found here. We are actively porting more
features to the Avogadro 2 code base, and making regular releases to get
feedback from the community.
We are actively working to finish Avogadro 2.0 in 2022.
Installing
We provide nightly binaries built by GitHub actions for:
If you would like to build from source we recommend that you
follow our building Open Chemistry guide that will take care of
building most dependencies.
Contributing
We welcome all kinds of contributions as a community project, from bug
reports, feature suggestions, language translations, Python plugins,
and C++ code development.
Our project uses the standard GitHub pull request process for code review
and integration. Please check our contribution guide for more
details on developing and contributing to the project. The GitHub issue
tracker
can be used to report bugs, make feature requests, etc. Our API is
documented online with updated documentation generated nightly.
To introduce yourself, ask for help, or general discussion, we welcome everyone
to our forum
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