

The Avogadro 1.0 release was made in 2009, and a new beta series with many changes (1.1.0) in 2012.
#Avogadro2 github code
The Avogadro project was founded in 2006, with development really ramping up in 2007 bolstered by a strong collaboration with KDE on the Kalzium project and a Google Summer of Code project to bring a molecular editor to Kalzium. This article will focus on Avogadro 2 and the libraries that power it. The diagram below shows the three core Open Chemistry projects, along with the framework development. Another, more recent article describing linking NWChem and Avogadro with the syntax and semantics of the Chemical Markup Language describes collaborative work on an end-to-end solution in open computational chemistry in collaboration with the developers of NWChem and FoX. The Avogadro paper describes Avogadro 1.x, with a particular focus on the work leading up to and including the 1.0 releases.

Avogadro 2 is a rewrite of the Avogadro codebase, with a focus on scaling to larger problems in chemistry, molecular modeling, materials science, and bioinformatics. The project recently made its first release, tagging version 0.5.0 of all projects on April 11, 2013.

Now we will focus on Avogadro 2, and the Avogadro libraries being developed to support the Open Chemistry project. We have written about the Open Chemistry project in a previous Source article, and MoleQueue in a more recent article.
