Developer:Links

The following are a set of links and bookmarks for developers on a range of useful topics. This includes galleries of example molecular rendering programs,

The links are in no particular order.

Rendering

• GL to PS OpenGL to PS "printing library." Supports PS, EPS, PDF and SVG.
• Molekel
• Jmol
• BioDesigner
• BioDesigner II
• VMD
• QuteMol
• PyMol
• CrystalMaker
• Dino
• MolMol
• ORTEP ellipses
• VIDA

Surfaces/Mesh Libraries

• Open Molecular Inventor
• VTK
• GTS
• Open Mesh
• OpenVL
• VCG (Used by QuteMol)
• G3D

Other Chemistry Editors & Visualization

We want Avogadro to stand up to the best commercial and open source molecular editing and visualization tools. Here are a selection to consider. These are particularly useful when thinking of ideas -- what works and what doesn't:

• GAMGI
• GDIS
• Gabedit
• CRK
• Kryomol
• Spartan
• ViewMol
• Ghemical
• Vega
• Molden
• MolWorks
• WebMO
• HyperChem
• PCModel
• GaussView
• Brabosphere
• CCP1 GUI
• Bioclipse
• Mercury
• Maestro
• Garlic

Computational Engines

• MPQC (includes library for handling orbitals)
• GAMESS
• Mopac 2007
• Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver