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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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Avogadro is still in development, so this webpage is designed to give a flavor of Avogadro as it matures and to coordinate the development team.
 
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<h3 style="background:#FFC435;margin:-2px;padding:4px;"> ''Navigation'' </h3>
 
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* '''[[Get Avogadro|Download]]'''
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* '''[[Documentation]]'''
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* '''[http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=165310 Screenshots]'''
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* '''[[Education|Teaching with Avogadro]]'''
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* '''[[To Do]]''' (including current status)
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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]]'''
 
* '''[[:Category:Developer|Extend]]''' Avogadro
 
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* '''[[Contact|Contact Us]]'''
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* '''[[Contact|Contact Us: Mailing Lists]]'''
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* '''[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=165310 Report a Bug]'''
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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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* '''2008-03-08''' [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=796606 Avogadro 0.6.1 Released]
 
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: [[Avogadro_0.6.1|Release Notes]]
 
  
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* '''2008-02-29''' [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=792285 Avogadro 0.6.0 Released]
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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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: [http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Avogadro2_0.8.0 Release Notes]
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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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* '''2007-10-23''' [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=747707 Avogadro 0.2.0 Released]
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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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: [[Avogadro_0.2.0|Release Notes]]
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: [http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Avogadro2_0.7.0 Release Notes]
  
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* '''2007-05-17''' [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=697353 Avogadro 0.1.0 Released]
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* '''2012-08-13''' [http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17 Avogadro Paper Published]
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: [[Avogadro_0.1.0|Release Notes]]
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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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