openbabel

About openbabel

From Debian's package description

Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data. It allows one to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas. Features include:

• Hydrogen addition and deletion
• Support for Molecular Mechanics
• Support for SMARTS molecular matching syntax
• Automatic feature perception (rings, bonds, hybridization, aromaticity)
• Flexible atom typer and perception of multiple bonds from atomic coordinates
• Gasteiger-Marsili partial charge calculation

File formats Open Babel supports include PDB, XYZ, CIF, CML, SMILES, MDL Molfile, ChemDraw, Gaussian, GAMESS, MOPAC and MPQC.

This package includes the following utilities:

• obabel: Convert between various chemical file formats
• obenergy: Calculate the energy for a molecule
• obminimize: Optimize the geometry, minimize the energy for a molecule
• obgrep: Molecular search program using SMARTS pattern
• obgen: Generate 3D coordinates for a molecule
• obprop: Print standard molecular properties
• obfit: Superimpose two molecules based on a pattern
• obrotamer: Generate conformer/rotamer coordinates
• obconformer: Generate low-energy conformers
• obchiral: Print molecular chirality information
• obrotate: Rotate dihedral angle of molecules in batch mode
• obprobe: Create electrostatic probe grid

From Debian's description of the openbabel package, under that package's license.