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Open Babel: The Open Source Chemistry Toolbox

Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data. It's an open, collaborative project allowing anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas.

• Ready-to-use programs, and complete programmer's toolkit
• Read, write and convert over 90 chemical file formats
• Filter and search molecular files using SMARTS and other methods
• Supports molecular modeling, cheminformatics, bioinformatics
• Organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, solid-state materials, nuclear chemistry
• Downloaded over 100000 times and used by over 30 related projects
• More about Open Babel
• Open Babel on SourceForge

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News 2009-02-03 Open Babel 2.2.1 Released 2008-07-04 Open Babel 2.2.0 Released 2008-03-20 Paper on Pybel published 2008-02-26 New OpenBabel.org Website 2007-07-07 Open Babel 2.1.1 Released 2007-04-07 Open Babel 2.1.0 Released 2006-12-02 Open Babel featured in ChemCast Podcast 2006-11-02 eMolecules Donates Canonical SMILES Code 2006-09-12 2006 Blue Obelisk Award 2006-07-24 Open Babel 2.0.2 Released 2006-05-03 Subversion Repository Active 2006-04-17 Open Babel 2.0.1 Released 2005-11-29 Open Babel 2.0.0 Released News Archive »