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. The code in this repository is a rewrite of Avogadro with source code split across a libraries repository and an application repository. Core features and goals of the Avogadro project:

• Open source distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license
• Cross platform with nightly 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