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Chemistry

Quantum ESPRESSO – electronic-structure and materials modelling suite

October 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Quantum ESPRESSO is a suite for electronic-structure calculations and materials modelling using density-functional theory, plane waves and pseudopotentials.

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Chemistry

OpenMD – molecular dynamics simulation engine

October 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

OpenMD is a molecular dynamics engine for simulating liquids, proteins, nanoparticles, interfaces and systems with orientational degrees of freedom.

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4 Best Free and Open Source Cheminformatics Tools

October 2, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Explore the best free and open source cheminformatics tools for analysing chemical structures, compounds, reactions and molecular data.

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Chemistry

OpenMolcas – multiconfigurational quantum chemistry package

October 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

OpenMolcas is a quantum chemistry package centred on multiconfigurational electronic-structure methods including CASSCF and CASPT2.

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MOPAC – semiempirical quantum chemistry package

October 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

MOPAC is a semiempirical quantum chemistry package for fast molecular and materials calculations, geometry optimisation and reaction studies.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Chemical Structure Drawing Tools

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Explore the best free and open source software for drawing chemical structures, molecular diagrams, reactions, and structural formulas.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Molecular Editors and Visualisation

September 26, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Discover the best free and open source molecular editors for molecular modelling, visualization, chemistry and structural biology.

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Chemistry

Periodic Table Tools: 10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, Scientific

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements.

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Molsketch – 2D molecular structure editor

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Molsketch is a Qt-based 2D molecular structure editor with chemical drawing tools, OpenBabel integration, and image export.

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Butlerov – 2D chemical structure editor

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Butlerov is a 2D chemical structure editor for drawing molecules, editing bonds and atoms, and working with MOL and SDF files.

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CDK – cheminformatics and bioinformatics toolkit

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

CDK is a Java toolkit providing algorithms and data structures for cheminformatics, molecular processing and chemical informatics.

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IQmol3 – molecular editor and visualization package

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

IQmol3 is a molecular editor and visualization package for building molecules, analysing Q-Chem results and displaying molecular properties.

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inperiod – interactive periodic table and element reference

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

inperiod is a Rust periodic table with element data, trends, electron configurations, crystal structures, Chinese names and printable views.

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Chemistry

Periodic Table – detailed interactive chemistry reference

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Periodic Table is an interactive chemistry reference with element properties, multilingual content, spectral data, nuclides, decay chains, and search.

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Magical Potions

3D Periodic Table – visualize element properties in three dimensions

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

3D Periodic Table visualizes chemical element properties in three dimensions, with interactive controls for property, scale, coloring, phase, and category.

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Chemistry

pychemqt – chemical engineering process simulator

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

pychemqt is a Python and Qt chemical engineering application for process simulation, thermodynamic calculations, equipment design, and scientific tools.

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Chemistry

asciiMol – terminal-based molecule viewer

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

asciiMol is a terminal-based molecule viewer written in Python.

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Chemistry

29 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chemistry Tools

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

We feature the finest free and open source Chemistry software.

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Chemistry

GPAW – density-functional theory calculations with Python

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

GPAW provides projector-augmented wave DFT calculations with real-space, plane-wave and atomic-orbital methods plus optical response.

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Chemistry

DFTB+ – fast quantum mechanical atomistic simulations

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DFTB+ performs fast electronic-structure calculations for molecules and periodic materials, including dynamics, transport and solvation.

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