gOpenMol has its background in the SCARECROW program, which was introduced at the beginning of the 90s. In the middle of the 90s prof. Geerd Diercksen asked for a graphical interface for his OpenMol set of programs. This triggered off the development of gOpenMol. Since those days, the development of the program has been active, and today we can proudly present the updated version of the gOpenMol program. The current version is 3.00 released on 23.9.2005.

With gOpenMol small molecules, and to lesser extent protein structures, as well as the chemical properties, total electron densities and molecule orbitals of small molecules can be visualized and analyzed. Data from a variety of computational chemistry programs such as TurboMole, Gaussian, Gamess, etc., can be analyzed if the output files from these programs have been converted into the .plt-file format understood by gOpenMol. Moreover, dynamics done with, e.g., InsightII can be visualized and a short mpeg animation of the dynamics files generated.

On these pages you will find information about the program, the software and the development. These pages are also intended to improve the communication in the gOpenMol community.