Molden

Molden

Molden running under Linux, showing the structure of benzene.
Original author(s)	Gijs Schaftenaar
Initial release	10 November 1993 (1993-11-10)[1]
Stable release	5.0.6 / 9 April 2013 (2013-04-09) [1]
Operating system	Windows OS X Linux [2]
License	Proprietary
Website	www.cmbi.ru.nl/molden/molden.html

Molden is a general molecular and electronic structure processing program.

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.

References

See also

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