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6 Best Free and Open Source Molecular Dynamics and Simulation Tools

October 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Molecular dynamics and simulation tools model atomic interactions, molecular behaviour and material properties for scientific research.

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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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Patinae – programmable molecular visualization toolkit

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Patinae is a GPU-first molecular visualization toolkit for structural analysis, scripting, publication images, notebooks and web embedding.

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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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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

PySCF – Python framework for quantum chemistry

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

PySCF combines Python scripting with quantum chemistry methods for molecules and solids, including DFT, coupled cluster and multireference.

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Chemistry

Open Babel – chemical toolbox software

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Open Babel is a chemical toolbox for converting, searching, analysing and manipulating molecular data across a wide range of chemistry formats.

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