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Type: desktop-application
ID: org.openchemistry.Avogadro2
Package: avogadro
ProjectLicense: BSD-3-Clause
Name:
C: Avogadro
Summary:
C: Advanced molecular editor
Description:
C: >-
<p>
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.
</p>
<p>
Core features and goals of the Avogadro project include:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Open-source, distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license</li>
<li>Cross-platform, with nightly builds on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows</li>
<li>An intuitive interface designed to be useful to whole community</li>
<li>Fast and efficient, embracing the latest technologies</li>
<li>Extensible, making extensive use of a plugin architecture</li>
<li>Flexible, supporting a range of chemical data formats and packages</li>
</ul>
ProjectGroup: Open Chemistry
Developer:
id: cc.avogadro
name:
C: The Avogadro team
Categories:
- Science
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Education
Url:
homepage: https://avogadro.cc/
help: https://avogadro.cc/docs
translate: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/avogadro/
bugtracker: https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/issues
faq: https://discuss.avogadro.cc/
donation: https://opencollective.com/open-chemistry
Icon:
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height: 128
stock: org.openchemistry.Avogadro2
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- org.openchemistry.Avogadro2.desktop
Recommends:
- control: keyboard
- control: pointing
- display_length: 768
Provides:
mediatypes:
- chemical/x-cml
- chemical/x-xyz
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height: 400
Branding:
colors:
- type: primary
scheme-preference: light
value: "#00bdeb"
- type: primary
scheme-preference: dark
value: "#00bdeb"
Releases:
- version: "2.0.0"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1775001600
description:
C: >-
<p>Highlights</p>
<ul>
<li>New plugin system will load menu commands, input generators, file formats, energy and electrostatic models, including
installation of any required libraries and tools using [`pixi`](https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/installation/) on Mac and Windows.
(Highly recommended on Linux too)</li>
<li>New plugin install window and index, including over 20 plugins (and growing)</li>
<li>Faster geometry optimizations ~50% faster on all models, and up to 5-10x faster on large molecules using UFF.</li>
<li>Added a faster protocol for using external energy models, including ML potentials, XTB, and more.</li>
<li>Added a simple molecular dynamics mode to the AutoOpt tool, including with energy models.</li>
<li>Improved ORCA input generator, including syntax highlighting</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://avogadro.cc/install/versions/v200.html
- version: "1.103.0"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1770336000
description:
C: >-
<p>Highlights</p>
<ul>
<li>Switch to use OpenGL 4.0 core profile for improved rendering speed</li>
<li>Volumetric rendering style for surfaces (orbitals, electron density, spin density)</li>
<li>Add peptide builder</li>
<li>Add keyboard shortcuts for functional groups and ligands to template tool</li>
<li>Display both alpha / beta orbitals in the orbital window</li>
<li>Performance optimizations for basis set calculations</li>
<li>Improved heuristics for opening CIF and crystallographic files</li>
<li>Update conformer plots for RMSD and energy</li>
<li>Support for isotope specification for atoms</li>
<li>Improved LAMMPS and Turbomole support</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://avogadro.cc/install/versions/v1103.html
- version: "1.102.1"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1761523200
description:
C: >-
<p>Highlights</p>
<ul>
<li>This release fixes a number of bugs in the recent 1.102.0 release.</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://avogadro.cc/install/versions/v11021.html
- version: "1.102.0"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1761177600
description:
C: >-
<p>Highlights</p>
<ul>
<li>This release is intended as a final beta before a 2.0 stable release</li>
<li>Add the popular auto optimize tool</li>
<li>Updated charts, including spectra using the JKQtPlotter framework</li>
<li>Use `pixi` if available to install Python and plugins</li>
<li>A pile of bug fixes, updated language translations, and more</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://avogadro.cc/install/versions/v1102.html
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