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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.
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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.
  
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The main concept behind Avogadro is to enable a strong framework for molecular visualization and editing. Each community has their own needs and goals for an ideal tool. So Avogadro seeks to allow users to easily provide their own plugins and scripts for rendering, tools, commands... etc.
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* '''Cross-Platform:''' Molecular builder/editor for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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* '''Free, Open Source''': Easy to install and all source code is available under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL].
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* '''International:''' Translations into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and others, with [http://translations.launchpad.net/avogadro/trunk/+translations more languages] to come.
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* '''Intuitive:''' Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.
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* '''Fast:''' Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.
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* '''Extensible:''' Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
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* '''Flexible:''' Features include [http://openbabel.org/ Open Babel] import of chemical files, input generation for multiple computational chemistry packages, crystallography, and biomolecules.
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* '''How to [[Citation|cite]] Avogadro''': The [http://www.jcheminf.com/content/4/1/17 Avogadro Paper]
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* '''Tell others:''' <htmlet>share</htmlet>. Share the [http://www.jcheminf.com/content/4/1/17 paper]
  
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Avogadro is based on top of existing chemistry software, including [http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/ Open Babel]. In the future, it will offer strong scripting abilities to allow for automated demos, submission of calculations to local computational resources, and user-defined customization.
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<h3 style="background:#FFC435;margin:-2px;padding:4px;"> ''Navigation'' </h3>
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* '''[[Documentation]]'''
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* '''[[Education|Teaching with Avogadro]]'''
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* '''[[FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]]'''
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* '''[[Get Involved|How You Can Help]]'''
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* '''[[Screenshots]]''' and '''[[Screencasts]]'''
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* '''[[:Category:Developer|Extend]]''' Avogadro
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* '''[[Contact|Contact Us: Mailing Lists]]'''
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* '''[http://sourceforge.net/p/avogadro/bugs/ Report a Bug]'''
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* '''[http://sourceforge.net/p/avogadro/feature-requests/ Request a Feature]'''
  
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The program is currently in early development, so this wiki is designed mostly to coordinate development efforts.
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* [[Avogadro 0.1.0]] Initial Beta Release
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<h3 style="background:#FFC435;margin:-2px;padding:4px;"> ''News'' </h3>
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* [[To Do]] list (including current status)
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* [[Design]] outline
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* [[:Category:Developer|Developer]] information.
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* '''2015-08-17''' [https://sourceforge.net/p/avogadro/news/2015/08/avogadro2-080-released/ Avogadro 2 0.8.0]
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* [[Contact]] information
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: [http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Avogadro2_0.8.0 Release Notes]
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* [[Getting Involved]]
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* '''2013-12-23''' [https://sourceforge.net/p/avogadro/news/2013/12/avogadro-2-072-released/ Avogadro 2 0.7.2]
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: [http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Avogadro2_0.7.2 Release Notes]
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* '''2013-12-11''' [https://sourceforge.net/p/avogadro/news/2013/12/avogadro-111-released/ Avogadro 1.1.1]
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: [[Avogadro_1.1.1|Release Notes]]
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* '''2013-12-02''' [https://sourceforge.net/p/avogadro/news/2013/12/avogadro-2-070-released/ Avogadro 2 0.7.0]
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: [http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Avogadro2_0.7.0 Release Notes]
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* '''2012-08-13''' [http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17 Avogadro Paper Published]
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: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17 Open Access Paper]
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[http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=165310 News Archive &raquo;]
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