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title: "Ascalaph Designer"
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Ascalaph Designer is a computer program for general purpose molecular modelling for molecular design and simulations. It provides a graphical environment for the common programs of quantum and classical molecular modelling ORCA, NWChem, Firefly, CP2K and MDynaMix 
. The molecular mechanics calculations cover model building, energy optimizations and molecular dynamics. Firefly (formerly named PC GAMESS) covers a wide range of quantum chemistry methods. Ascalaph Designer is free and open-source software, released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).


== Key features ==


== Uses ==


== See also ==
List of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Molecular design software
Molecule editor
Abalone


== References ==


== External links ==
Official website
SourceForge
Twitter