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Open Babel

  • Openness:3 ★★★
  • Document quality:3 ★★★

An open-source application for translating chemical structure format files. More than 110 formats are supported. This application is actively being developed taking into account use and construction of database and application to infomational technology in chemistry (chemoinformatics). A graphical user interface is alsp provided for Windows.

Information
Last Update:2024/10/10

Official site

http://openbabel.org/index.html

License

GNU GPL v2

Availability

Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OS. GUI for Windows is also provided.
Related App
Document

“Open Babel: An open chemical toolbox”, N. M. O’Boyle et al., J. Cheminf. 2011 3:33
https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-3-33
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Supported formats

Extracted from the reference given below.
・Application for quantum chemical calculation: GAMESS, Gaussian, MOPAC
・Application for visualization: Avogadro, ChemDraw, Chem3D, Molden
・Crystal structure file formate: CIF, ShelX
・File format for cheminformatics: SMILES, InChI, MOL, MOL2
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