Links
The following are a set of links and bookmarks for developers on a range of useful topics. This includes galleries of example molecular rendering programs,
The links are in no particular order.
Rendering
Some packages with interesting rendering options.
- GL to PS OpenGL to PS “printing library.” Supports PS, EPS, PDF and SVG.
- Molekel
- Jmol
- BioDesigner
- BioDesigner II
- VMD
- QuteMol
- PyMol
- CrystalMaker
- Dino
- MolMol
- ORTEP ellipses
- VIDA
Other Chemistry Editors & Visualization
We want Avogadro to stand up to the best commercial and open source molecular editing and visualization tools. Here are a selection to consider. These are particularly useful when thinking of ideas – what works and what doesn’t. This list is hardly complete:
- ArgusLab
- Bioclipse
- Brabosphere
- CCP1 GUI
- CRK
- DS Visualizer
- Gabedit
- GAMGI
- Garlic
- GaussView
- GDIS
- Ghemical
- HyperChem
- Jmol
- Kryomol
- Maestro
- MAPS
- Mercury
- Molden
- Molekel
- MolWorks
- PCModel
- PyMol
- QuteMol
- Spartan
- Vega
- ViewMol
- VMD
- WebMO
Computational Engines
A very incomplete list…
- Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver
- GAMESS-US
- Gaussian
- Mopac 2007
- MPQC (includes library for handling orbitals)
- Q-Chem