Avogadro provides analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
Avogadro 2
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:
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 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.
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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Avogadro provides analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
We found that avogadro demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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