Molden

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Molden is a general molecular and electronic structure processing program.

Molden running under Linux, showing the structure of benzene.

Major features

• Reads output from the ab initio packages GAMESS (US), Gaussian, MOLPRO and from semi-empirical packages such as MOPAC, and supports a number of other formats.
• Displays molecular orbitals or electron density as contour plots or 3D grid plots and output to a number of graphical formats.
• Animates reaction paths and molecular vibrations.
• A powerful Z-matrix editor.

See also

• List of molecular graphics systems
• List of software for molecular mechanics modeling

External links

• Molden home page

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