Related Projects

There are many projects which use Open Babel code internally, including several easy-to-use "front end" interfaces, as well as a variety of related open source chemistry projects.

Programs Using Open Babel

• Avogadro - Flexible, cross-platform 3D molecular editor
• Bist 2D drawing tool for Qt/KDE (in development)
• Brabosphere - Brabosphere, a molecular visualization tool for the quantum mechanics package BRABO
• CCP1GUI - Free, extensible molecular viewer and editor, including GUI for GAMESS-UK
• Chemtool - 2D molecular drawing tool using GTK toolkit
• ChemSpotlight - Chemical indexing for Mac OS X
• Chemical Structure Project - Open Source Chemical Structure Database
• eMolecules - World-wide chemical search
• Gabedit - Molecular editor for GNOME environment
• GChemPaint - 2D molecular drawing tool for GNOME environment
• Ghemical - Molecular editor for GNOME environment
• Gnome Chemistry Utils - GTK/Gnome based tools for chemistry software development
• Kalzium - KDE Chemistry Education project
• KMovisto - 3D molecular viewer for Linux
• lazar - Lazy Structure-Activity Relationships (prediction of toxicity data)
• Molekel - Advanced multiplatform 3D molecular viewer
• molsketch - 2D molecular drawing tool for Qt/KDE environment (in development)
• MyChem - MySQL extension for chemical databases
• NanoEngineer-1 - Open source 3D molecular modeler for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• NanoHive-1 Nanospace Simulator - Modular simulator for modeling nanometer scale physics and chemistry
• OOPSE - Object-Oriented Parallel Simulation Engine
• OSRA - Optical Structure Recognition (graphics into SMILES)
• pgchem::tigress - PostgreSQL database engine for molecules
• SMIREP - SMILES based structure-activity relationship rules
• SPORCalc - Substrate Product Occurrence Ratio Calculator - Fingerprint Probabilistic Scoring of Sites of Metabolism
• V-Sim Visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries, etc.
• ViewMol - Molecular viewer and graphical front end for computational chemistry programs
• XDrawChem - XWindows/Qt-based 2D molecular drawing tool
• YASARA - Yet Another Scientific Artificial Reality Application
• Zodiac - Cross-platform suite for Rational drug design

Front Ends

• iBabel - Mac OS X interface to Open Babel (see also iBabel documentation)
• Kemistry - Collection of chemical applications for the KDE environment
• KOpenBabel - A KDE interface of Open Babel
• PyGTK-Open Babel - A GTK interface to Open Babel using Python
• QOpenBabel - A Qt interface of Open Babel
• Virtual Computational Chemistry Laboratory - Web based services for computational chemistry
• World Wide Molecular Matrix - Web based services for chemoinformatics

Related Open Chemistry Projects

• Bioclipse - Java based bioinformatics and cheminformatics tools
• Blue Obelisk Movement - A group of open source chemistry and chemoinformatics projects
  • Blue Obelisk - Chemoinformatics Algorithm Dictionary
  • Blue Obelisk - Chemoinformatics Data Repository
  • Planet BO - Personal blogs of Blue Obelisk contributors
  • Chemical Blogosphere
• Chemical Development Kit (CDK) - Java library for structural chemo- and bioinformatics.
• ChemFile - Open Chemical Structures Library
• Chemistry Markup Language (CML) - A standardized XML file format for chemistry and molecular science
• Crystallography Open Database - An open crystallography database using Open Babel for structure and substructure search
• Depth First - Cheminformatics blog using open source chemistry tools.
• JChemPaint - A 2D molecular drawing package based on CDK.
• Jmol - Java molecular viewer for desktop or web visualization
• JOELib - Java version of OpenBabel, and like OpenBabel also a OELib successor
• NMRShiftDB - Open database of molecular NMR data
• PerlMol - Perl Modules for Molecular Chemistry
• Open Source QSAR