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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://two.avogadro.cc/
help: https://two.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
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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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Branding:
colors:
- type: primary
scheme-preference: light
value: "#00bdeb"
- type: primary
scheme-preference: dark
value: "#00bdeb"
Releases:
- version: 1.100.0
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1737417600
description:
C: >-
<p>Highlights</p>
<ul>
<li>New rendering options, including depth-of-field blur and fog from @perminder-17</li>
<li>Faster surface mesh generation using the flying edges algorithm @perminder-17</li>
<li>Brought back the “molecular orbitals” panel @ghutchis</li>
<li>Support for translucent balls-and-sticks, van der Waals spheres, and licorice rendering including per-layer customization @ghutchis</li>
<li>New, improved Flatpak package from @matterhorn103 including support for ARM</li>
<li>New conformer properties window @ghutchis</li>
<li>New improved molecular properties window, including charge and spin multiplicity, HOMO and LUMO energies, total energies and other
properties (depending on file format) @ghutchis</li>
<li>Many more properties parsed from ORCA output files including Hirshfeld, MBIS, and CHELPG charges @ghutchis</li>
<li>Code signing on Windows to minimize Defender warnings @ghutchis thanks to SignPath</li>
<li>Support for latest Qt6 on Linux @matterhorn103</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://two.avogadro.cc/install/versions/v1100.html
- version: 1.99.0
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1707523200
description:
C: >-
<p>Highlights</p>
<ul>
<li>Further improvements to the new optimization framework, including default integrated Open Babel force fields (MMFF94, UFF, GAFF)</li>
<li>New toolbar icons with light / dark theme from @matterhorn103</li>
<li>Significantly faster molecular and orbital surfaces</li>
<li>Vibrational spectra plotting</li>
<li>Support for installing Python packages with plugins via pip or conda</li>
<li>Improved selection of conda environments</li>
<li>Conformer search dialog through Open Babel</li>
<li>Improved template tool for inserting ligands and functional groups</li>
<li>Significant improvements from @nbehrnd for the ligand library</li>
<li>Logging debugging / error messages to a file for Windows users</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://two.avogadro.cc/install/versions/v199.html
- version: 1.98.1
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1698883200
description:
C: >-
<p>This is a bug-fix release, particularly for Windows users, removing a filename filter that affected opening and saving files.</p>
<p>This also includes the openbabel-3.dll which was left out of Windows releases.</p>
url:
details: https://two.avogadro.cc/install/versions/v1981.html
- version: 1.98.0
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1698364800
description:
C: >-
<p>Highlights</p>
<ul>
<li>Integration with 3Dconnexion input devices on Mac and Windows</li>
<li>Improved rendering including ambient occlusion and real-time shadows</li>
<li>New template tool for assembly of inorganic complexes and ligands or attaching functional groups (e.g, “click to add phenyl group”)
(#1075)</li>
<li>New forcefield framework supporting external Python scripts (e.g., XTB, ASE, ANI-2x, etc.) (#1370)</li>
<li>Better perception of bond orders</li>
<li>Align tool (#1364)</li>
<li>Manual translate / rotate dialog</li>
<li>Fetch molecule names from PubChem, including markup</li>
<li>Commands to create centroid and center-of-mass points</li>
<li>Improved “fill unit cell” (#1375)</li>
<li>Preview images of insert molecule fragments and import crystals</li>
<li>Build improvements, including initial support for Qt6 and VTK9 fixes @cryos</li>
<li>Integrated Orca ouputfile support (from Orca-enhanced Avogadro) (#1326)</li>
<li>Add a generic compchem output reader (i.e., should automatically handle .out and .log files) (#1347)</li>
<li>Initial scripting support (e.g., used to generate preview images through a directory) (#1344)</li>
<li>Several updated toolbar icons</li>
</ul>
url:
details: https://two.avogadro.cc/install/versions/v198.html
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