https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs
Avogadro libraries provide 3D rendering, visualization, analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs
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Avogadro libraries provide 3D rendering, visualization, analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs
- Owner: OpenChemistry
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2012-04-28T18:56:52.000Z (about 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-25T18:26:09.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-27T17:12:47.794Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: avogadro, chemistry, compchem, computational-chemistry, cross-platform, desktop, hacktoberfest, open-science, open-source, openchemistry, opengl, qt5, scientific-computing, visualization
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://two.avogadro.cc/
- Size: 69.8 MB
- Stars: 517
- Watchers: 24
- Forks: 187
- Open Issues: 120
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Citation: CITATION.cff
- Security: SECURITY.md
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README
# ![Avogadro 2][Avogadro2Logo] Avogadro 2
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## Introduction
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.
Core features and goals of the Avogadro project include:
* Open source distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license
* Cross platform with builds on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
* Intuitive interface designed to be useful to whole community
* Fast and efficient embracing the latest technologies
* Extensible, making extensive use of a plugin architecture
* Flexible supporting a range of chemical data formats and packages
The code in this repository is a rewrite of Avogadro with source
code split across a
[libraries repository](https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs)
and an [application repository](https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadroapp).
The new code architecture provides a high-performance rendering engine, modern
code development, and significantly improved speed and stability.
Avogadro 2 is being developed as part of the [Open Chemistry][OpenChemistry]
project by an open community, and was started at [Kitware][Kitware] as
an open source community project. The Avogadro 1.x series currently has more
features, and can be found [here][Avogadro1]. We are actively porting more
features to the Avogadro 2 code base, and making regular releases to get
feedback from the community.
## Installing
We provide nightly binaries built by GitHub actions for:
* [Linux AppImage](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_cmake/master/Avogadro2.AppImage.zip)
* [MacOS](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_cmake/master/macOS.dmg.zip)
* [Windows 64-bit](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_cmake/master/Win64.exe.zip)
If you would like to build from source we recommend that you
follow our [building Open Chemistry][Build] guide that will take care of
building most dependencies.
## Contributing
We welcome *all* kinds of contributions as a community project, from bug
reports, feature suggestions, language translations, Python plugins,
and C++ code development.
Our project uses the standard GitHub pull request process for code review
and integration. Please check our [contribution][Contribution] guide for more
details on developing and contributing to the project. The [GitHub issue
tracker](https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs/issues/)
can be used to report bugs, make feature requests, etc. Our API is
[documented online][API] with updated documentation generated nightly.
To introduce yourself, ask for help, or general discussion, we welcome everyone
to our [forum](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/)
Contributors Hall of Fame:
[Avogadro2Logo]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/master/docs/avogadro2_64.png "Avogadro2"
[OpenChemistry]: http://openchemistry.org/ "Open Chemistry Project"
[OpenChemistryLogo]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/master/docs/OpenChemistry128.png "Open Chemistry"
[Kitware]: http://kitware.com/ "Kitware, Inc."
[Avogadro1]: http://avogadro.cc/ "Avogadro 1"
[Build]: https://two.avogadro.cc/install/build.html "Building Avogadro"
[Contribution]: https://two.avogadro.cc/contrib/ "Contribution guide"
[API]: https://two.avogadro.cc/api/ "API documentation"