Avogadro

Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.

This documentation site is for Avogadro 2, currently in development.

• Free, Open Source: Easy to install and all source code and documentation is available to modify or extend.

• International: Translations into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and others, with more languages to come.

• Intuitive: Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.

• Fast: Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.

• Extensible: Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.

Install

MacOS

Download DMG

Download Nightly Build

Windows

Download Installer

Download Nightly Build

Linux

Download Flatpak

Build from source

Graphics

Resources

User Guide

Coming Soon for Avogadro2:

• Getting Started

• Tutorials

• Manual

API Documentation

Develop scripts and C++ code with Avogadro:

• Script Plugins

• Jupyter Notebooks

• C++ API

Contribute

We want your help to make Avogadro better for everyone:

• Roadmap

• Translation / Localization

• Bugs / Issues

• Feature Requests

Connecting with the Avogadro community

There are various ways to get in touch with the Avogadro community:

• Avogadro Discussion is the best place to ask usage questions and is a great way to get feedback from other users on how to approach a problem.

• If you think you’ve found a bug, or would like to request a feature, please report an issue at the AvogadroLibs GitHub repository.

You can also find more information about Avogadro on Twitter.