Developer:Links
From Avogadro - Free cross-platform molecule editor
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.
Contents
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
- Jules Bloomenthal Polygonizer - (looks really good -Geoff)
- Polygonizer++ - public domain C++ code
- Open Molecular Inventor
- VTK
- GTS
- Open Mesh
- OpenVL
- VCG (Used by QuteMol)
- G3D
- Delaunay Mesh Generator
- Isotable
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. This list is hardly complete:
- ArgusLab
- Bioclipse
- Brabosphere
- CCP1 GUI
- CRK
- DS Visualizer
- Gabedit
- GAMGI
- Garlic
- GaussView
- GDIS
- Ghemical
- HyperChem
- Jmol
- Kryomol
- Maestro
- Mercury
- Molden
- Molekel
- MolWorks
- PCModel
- PyMol
- QuteMol
- Spartan
- Vega
- ViewMol
- VMD
- WebMO
Computational Engines
- MPQC (includes library for handling orbitals)
- GAMESS
- Mopac 2007
- Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver
