Open Source Chemistry Software

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

A fork of AutoDock Vina that is customized to better support scoring function development and high-performance energy minimization. smina is maintained by David Koes at the University of Pittsburgh and is not directly affiliated with the AutoDock project.

Over 1,000,000 page views per month. Jmol/JSmol is a molecular viewer for 3D chemical structures that runs in four independent modes: an HTML5-only web application utilizing jQuery, a Java applet, a stand-alone Java program (Jmol.jar), and a "headless" server-side component (JmolData.jar). Jmol can read many file types, including PDB, CIF, SDF, MOL, PyMOL PSE files, and Spartan files, as well as output from Gaussian, GAMESS, MOPAC, VASP, CRYSTAL, CASTEP, QuantumEspresso, VMD, and many other quantum chemistry programs. Files can be transferred directly from several databases, including RCSB, EDS, NCI, PubChem, and MaterialsProject. Multiple files can be loaded and compared. A rich scripting language and a well-developed web API allow easy customization of the user interface. Features include interactive animation and linear morphing. Jmol interfaces well with JSpecView for spectroscopy, JSME for 2D->3D conversion, POV-Ray for images, and CAD programs for 3D printing (VRML export).

Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data. It's an open, collaborative project allowing anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, biochemistry, or related areas

nmrshiftdb2 is a NMR database (web database) for organic structures and their nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectra. It allows for spectrum prediction (13C, 1H and other nuclei) as well as for searching spectra, structures and other properties. The nmrshiftdb2 software is open source, the data is published under an open content license. The core of nmrshitdb2 are fully assigned spectra with raw data and peak lists (we have pure peak lists as well). Those datasets are peer reviewed by a board of reviewers. The project is supported by a scientific advisory board. nmrshiftdb2 is part of the NFDI4Chem initiative (https://nfdi4chem.de/) and will provide a component for a curated repository there. Please consult the documentation for more detailed information.

DWSIM is an open source, CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator for Windows, Linux and macOS systems. Written in VB.NET and C#, DWSIM features a comprehensive set of unit operations, advanced thermodynamic models, support for reacting systems, petroleum characterization tools and a fully-featured graphical interface. DWSIM Pro is a commercial sibling of DWSIM built on top of open-source software. It offers extended features, comes with private support, and is accessible in the cloud. Visit simulate365.com for details.

A GUI application which estimates toxic hazard of chemical compounds. The latest version includes the following toxicity prediction modules: -Cramer rules (oral toxicity) -Toxicity mode of action via Verhaar scheme -Skin irritation and Eye irritation prediction -Benigni / Bossa rulebase for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity prediction -START biodegradation and persistence prediction -Skin sensitisation reactivity domain -Kroes TTC Decision tree -SMARTCyp - Cytochrome P450-Mediated Drug Metabolism and metabolites prediction -Structure Alerts for the in vivo micronucleus assay in rodents (ISSMIC) -Structural Alerts for Functional Group Identification (ISSFUNC) -Structural alerts associated with covalent protein binding and DNA binding. - Ames mutagenicity Toxtree provides a plugin framework to incorporate different approaches to the estimation. Platform independent (written in Java), with the use of The Chemistry Development Kit.

Stand-alone application and Python tools for interactive and/or batch processing analysis of X-Ray Fluorescence Spectra. Graphical user interface (GUI) and batch processing capabilities provided.

⚠️ KherveFitting has moved. New releases will no longer be published here. Download the latest version from https://khervetools.com or directly from GitHub: https://github.com/KherveFitting/KherveFitting/releases/latest. This SourceForge page is kept for archival/older versions only. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@xpsexamples-imperialcolleg6571

Towhee is a Monte Carlo molecular simulation code originally designed for the prediction of fluid phase equilibria using atom-based force fields and the Gibbs ensemble with particular attention paid to algorithms addressing molecule conformation sampling.

ChemCrow is an AI-powered framework designed to assist in chemical research and discovery. It integrates AI models with chemical knowledge bases to provide intelligent recommendations for synthesis planning, reaction prediction, and material discovery. This tool helps automate and accelerate research in computational chemistry and drug development.

Gabedit is a Graphical User Interface for FireFly (PC-Gamess), Gamess-US, Gaussian, Molcas, Molpro, MPQC, NWChem, OpenMopac, Orca, PSI4 and Q-Chem computational chemistry packages.

GenX is a scientific program to refine x-ray refelcetivity, neutron reflectivity and surface x-ray diffraction data using the differential evolution algorithm. GenX is very modular and highly extensible and can be used as a general fitting program.

XDrawChem is an application for drawing and analyzing chemical structures and reactions. Please visit the website for full details. Download source and binary releases here, and clone the source from GitHub at the external link above.

ShelXle combines an editor with syntax highlighting for the SHELXL-associated .ins (input) and .res (output) files with an interactive graphical display for visualization of a three-dimensional structure including the electron density (Fo) and difference density (Fo-Fc) maps. See J. Appl. Cryst. (2011). 44, 1281–1284. for details.

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OSRA is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures and reactions, as they appear in journal articles, patent documents, textbooks, trade magazines etc., into SMILES or SD file format- a computer recognizable molecular structure You can find links to the binary executables here: https://sourceforge.net/p/osra/wiki/Download/

RasTop is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules based on the popular Rasmol software. The program is aimed at the rapid visualization and analysis of molecules.

RINGS "Rigorous Investigation of Networks Generated using Simulations" is a scientific code developed in Fortran90/MPI to analyze the results of molecular dynamics simulations. Its main feature is the analysis of the connectivity using ring statistics.

QuteMol is a real time, high quality molecular visualizer that offers an array of innovative visual effects. QuteMol aims at improving the clarity of rendered images and at offering a better understanding of the molecular 3D shape and spatial structure.

The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is a scientific, LGPL-ed library for bio- and cheminformatics and computational chemistry written in Java. The main home page of the CDK is now at: http://cdk.github.io

Web-based Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) with integrated Chemical Inventory by the group of Prof. Goossen (then TU Kaiserslautern, Germany), based on PHP 8+/MariaDB. Allows (sub-)structure search, reaction planning, management of spectra and literature.

IFEFFIT is a library and set of interactive programs for the analysis of x-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) data. IFEFFIT combines state-of-the-art analysis algorithms with graphical display of XAFS data, and general data manipulation. It can be

MESMER is designed to analyze and simulate reactions in the gas phase that take place on a potential energy surface that is characterized by having one or more potential wells, and which are typically described by rate coefficients that depend on pressure (or concentration) as well as temperature. MESMER allows you to simulate systems over a wide range of pressures and temperatures, extract rate coefficients, analyze experimental data, fit model parameters and represent rate coefficients in formats that can be used directly in large scale simulations (e.g. Cantera or Chemkin).

This is targeted to be the most intuitive opensource 2D chemical drawing tool. You can draw organic chemical structures and reactions very easily and quickly. Available to download for Windows and Linux (AppImage, Flatpak, Snap)