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Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for
cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling,
bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers
flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin
architecture.

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<li><strong>Cross-Platform:</strong> Molecular builder/editor for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.</li>
<li><strong>Free, Open Source</strong>: Easy to install and all source
code and documentation is <a href="http://github.com/cryos/avogadro/">available to modify or extend.</a></li>
<li><strong>International</strong>: Translations into Chinese, French, German, Italian,
Russian, Spanish, and others, with <a href="https://translations.launchpad.net/avogadro/trunk/+translations">more languages to come.</a></li>
<li><strong>Intuitive</strong>: Built to work easily for students and advanced researchers both.</li>
<li><strong>Fast</strong>: Supports multi-threaded rendering and computation.</li>
<li><strong>Extensible</strong>: Plugin architecture for developers, including rendering, interactive tools, commands, and Python scripts.</li>
<li><strong>Flexible</strong>: Features include <a href="http://openbabel.org/">Open Babel</a> import of chemical files, input generation for multiple computational chemistry packages, crystallography, and biomolecules.</li>
<li><strong>How to <a href="/cite">cite Avogadro</a></strong>: <a href="http://www.jcheminf.com/content/4/1/17">The Avogadro Paper</a></li>
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