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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.

Cross-Platform: Molecular builder/editor for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Free, Open Source: Easy to install and all source code is available.
International: Translations into French and German, with more languages to come.
Intuitive: Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.
Fast: Supports multi-threading rendering and computation.
Extensible: Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
Flexible: Features include input generation for multiple computational chemistry packages, crystallography, and biomolecules. Find out more.

Avogadro is based on top of existing chemistry software, including 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.