CCL: Avogadro 1.1.0 Released
- From: Geoffrey Hutchison <geoffh__pitt.edu>
- Subject: CCL: Avogadro 1.1.0 Released
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:00:09 -0400
Sent to CCL by: Geoffrey Hutchison [geoffh**pitt.edu]
We are very proud to announce the availability of Avogadro 1.1.0.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/avogadro/1.1.0
Avogadro is a free, open source, cross-platform molecular editor designed for
flexible use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics,
materials science, and related areas. Packages are available for Windows, Linux
and Mac OS X. The source code source is available under the GNU GPLv2.
What's new? This release highlights a great deal of new features, including a
built-in crystal library, crystallographic editing, building slabs / surfaces
with arbitrary Miller planes, support for Abinit (and soon Quantum Espresso),
searching for IUPAC names in PubChem, custom atomic colors and radii, and much
more.
See the Release Notes:
http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/Avogadro_1.1.0
If you use Avogadro please check out the recently published Avogadro
paper, and consider citing it: http://www.jcheminf.com/content/4/1/17
What does Avogadro do?
* We've tried to make the best, most intuitive "builder," including
common fragments, downloading directly from PDB or PubChem, and peptide
sequences
* Innovative "auto-optimize" tool which allows you to continue to
build and modify, during molecular mechanics optimization
* Interfaces to many common computational packages
* Designed to help both educational users and advanced research
* Plugins that allow Avogadro to be extended and customized
* Well defined public API, library and Python bindings for development
* Embedded Python interpreter
* Translations available in 19+ languages
For more information: http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/
This is a community project and we couldn't have made this release without you.
Many thanks to all the contributors to Avogadro including those of you who
submitted feedback, bug reports, and code. Particular thanks go to all the
translators.
-Geoff
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Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison
Department of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh
tel: (412) 648-0492
email: geoffh**pitt.edu
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