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title: "Avogadro (software)"
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Avogadro is a molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It is extensible via a plugin architecture.


== Features ==

Molecule builder-editor for Windows, Linux, Unix, and macOS.
All source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
Supported languages include: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Polish.
Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.
Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.
OpenBabel import of files, input generation for multiple computational chemistry packages, X-ray crystallography, and biomolecules.


== See also ==


== References ==


== External links ==
Old website
Official website