Ascalaph Designer
| Ascalaph Designer | |
|---|---|
| Ascalaph Designer renders deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) | |
| Original author(s) | Alexei Nikitin | 
| Developer(s) | Agile Molecule | 
| Stable release | 1.8.94
   / 3 December 2015 | 
| Written in | C++ | 
| Operating system | Windows | 
| Platform | x86 | 
| Size | 138.9 MB | 
| Available in | English | 
| Type | Molecular modelling | 
| License | GNU GPL and others including Code Project Open License | 
| Website | www | 
Ascalaph Designer is a computer program for general purpose molecular modelling for molecular design and simulations. It provides a graphical environment for the common programs of quantum and classical molecular modelling ORCA, NWChem, Firefly, CP2K and MDynaMix . The molecular mechanics calculations cover model building, energy optimizations and molecular dynamics. Firefly (formerly named PC GAMESS) covers a wide range of quantum chemistry methods. Ascalaph Designer is free and open-source software, released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).