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.

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).

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.

Chemical structure sketching tool, for use with various cheminformatics applications. Convenient to use and moderately sophisticated. Suitable for viewing, creating and editing MDL MOL files.

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.

JSmol is the extension of the Java-based molecular visualization applet Jmol (jmol.sourceforge.net) as an HTML5 JavaScript-only web app. It can be used in conjunction with the Java applet to provide an alternative to Java when the platform does not support that (iPhone/iPad) or does not support applets (Android). Used in conjunction with the Jmol JavaScript Object (http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Jmol_Javascript_Object), JSmol seamlessly offers alternatives to Java on these non-Applet platforms. JSmol can read all the files that Jmol reads. You can do all the scripting that Jmol does. You can create all the buttons and links and such that you are used to creating for Jmol. All of the rendering capability of the Jmol applet is there. JSmol has both a console and a popup menu. JSmol is integrated fully with JSME and JSpecView. A "lite" version of JSmol provides minimal functionality (balls and sticks only) for extremely small-bandwith apps. Released 1/12/2013

The Sashimi project hosts the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP), a mature suite of tools for mass-spec (MS, MS/MS) based proteomics: statistical validation, quantitation, visualization, and converters from raw MS data to the open mzML/mzXML formats.

Molsketch is a 2D molecular editing tool. Its goal is to help you draw molecules quick and easily. Of course you're creation can be exported afterwards in high quality in a number of vector and bitmap formats.

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.

FreeLIMS is a Laboratory Information Management System ( LIMS ). Manage samples; create sample types from methods & parameters; easily generate reports & certificates; fine tune user rights. FreeLIMS is Open Source and Free.

ASCEND is a modelling environment and solver for large or small systems of non-linear equations, for use in engineering, thermodynamics, chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology. Solvers for both steady and dynamic (NLA & DAE) problems, are provid

The JSpecView Project initially provided JAVA applets for the display of JCAMP-DX and AnIML/CML spectral files. The source and binary files are available via the Code (sourceforge SVN) and Files menu options. See the WIKI pages (Hosted Apps) for more detail. Beginning September 2018 all code changes are being handled via the Jmol Sourceforge page. The codes has been fully merged and JSmol the JavaScript/HTML5 version of Jmol now includes the non-Java version of JSpecView.

Motofit co-refines Neutron and X-ray reflectometry data, using the Abeles matrix / Parratt recursion and least squares fitting (Genetic algorithm or Levenberg Marquardt). It works in the IGOR Pro environment (TM Wavemetrics).

Molecular Graphics, Molecular Dynamics, Optimization, Quantum chemistry. Molecular model building. Explicit and implicit water models. http://www.biomolecular-modeling.com/Products.html

A multi-procedure, multi platform electron spectrum evaluation program, with special options for atomic physics and XPS/UPS spectroscopy.

ChemFormatter is add-in program for Microsoft Office. ChemFormatter automatically applies font styles in a chemical document.

An open source workbench for chemo- and bioinformatics built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

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.

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

I.S.A.A.C.S. Interactive Structure Analysis of Amorphous and Crystalline Systems is a cross-platform software developed to analyze the structural characteristics of three-dimensional models built by computer simulations.

CEA Simplified is a GUI for a released version of NASA's CEA program from the 1970s. It is similar to the rocketCEA library for python or the ProPEP GUIs in that it attempts to provide an updated tool for using the same underlying software, but it is more focused on being beginner friendly.

This space is not maintained anymore. If you want to get the latest updates on fpocket refer to https://github.com/Discngine/fpocket. Fpocket is a very fast open source protein pocket detection algorithm based on Voronoi tessellation. The platform is suited for the scientific community willing to develop new scoring functions and extract pocket descriptors on a large scale level.

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

The repository has been moved to: https://github.com/wojdyr/fityk. Fityk is nonlinear curve-fitting and data analysis software. It is specialized in fitting peaks (bell-shaped functions like Gaussian, Loretzian, Pearson7, Voigt) to experimental data.