Avogadro 2
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. The code in this repository is a rewrite of Avogadro with source
code split across a libraries repository and an application repository. Core
features and goals of the Avogadro project:
- Open source distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license
- Cross platform with nightly 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
Avogadro 2 is being developed as part of the Open Chemistry
project by an open communit, and has been developed at Kitware as an
open source community project. The Avogadro 1.x series currently has more
features, and can be found here. We will be porting more features
to the Avogadro 2 code base, and making regular releases to get feedback from
the community. We are actively working to make Avogadro 2 mainline in 2018.
Installing
We provide nightly binaries built by our dashboards for Mac OS
X and Windows. If you would like to build from source we recommend that you
follow our building Open Chemistry guide that will take care of
building most dependencies.
Contributing
Our project uses the standard GitHub pull request process for code review
and integration. Please check our development guide for more
details on developing and contributing to the project. The GitHub issue
tracker can be used to report bugs, make feature requests, etc.
Our wiki is used to document features, flesh out designs and host other
documentation. Our API is documented using Doxygen with updated
documentation generated nightly. We have several mailing lists
to coordinate development and to provide support.