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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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* Cross-platform molecular builder/editor.
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* '''Cross-Platform:''' Molecular builder/editor for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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* Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
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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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* Built-in molecular mechanics (including MMFF94 and UFF).
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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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* Input generation for Gaussian and GAMESS-US, with more packages to come.
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* '''Intuitive:''' Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.
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* Support for crystallographic unit cells.
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* '''Fast:''' Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.
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* Visualization of isosurfaces and orbitals, including Gaussian cubes, OpenDX, and Gaussian fchk files.
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* '''Extensible:''' Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
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* Translations into French and German.
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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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* '''[[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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* '''[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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: [[Avogadro_0.6.0|Release Notes]]
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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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* '''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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* '''2007-10-23''' [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=747707 Avogadro 0.2.0 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_0.2.0|Release Notes]]
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: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17 Open Access Paper]
  
 
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