![Avogadro 2][Avogadro2Logo] Avogadro 2
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Introduction
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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 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 finish Avogadro 2.0 in 2021.
Installing
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We provide nightly binaries built by GitHub actions for:
* [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)
* [Ubuntu LTS](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_cmake/master/Ubuntu2004.tar.gz.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
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Our project uses the standard GitHub pull request process for code review
and integration. Please check our [development][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][Wiki] is used to document features, flesh out designs and host other
documentation. Our API is [documented using Doxygen][Doxygen] with updated
documentation generated nightly. We have several [mailing lists][MailingLists]
to coordinate development and to provide support.
Contributors Hall of Fame:
<a href="https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs/graphs/contributors">
<img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=openchemistry/avogadrolibs" />
</a>
[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."
[KitwareLogo]: http://www.kitware.com/img/small_logo_over.png "Kitware"
[Avogadro1]: http://avogadro.cc/ "Avogadro 1"
[Dashboard]: http://cdash.openchemistry.org/index.php?project=AvogadroLibs "Avogadro Dashboard"
[Build]: http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Build "Building Avogadro"
[Development]: http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Development "Development guide"
[Wiki]: http://wiki.openchemistry.org/ "Open Chemistry wiki"
[Doxygen]: http://doc.openchemistry.org/avogadrolibs/api/ "API documentation"
[MailingLists]: http://openchemistry.org/mailing-lists "Mailing Lists"