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  {
   "name": "Abalone",
   "url": "http://www.biomolecular-modeling.com/Abalone/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
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  {
   "name": "BigDFT",
   "url": "http://bigdft.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
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  {
   "name": "Blender",
   "url": "https://www.blender.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0",
   "open_source": true
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  {
   "name": "Dirac",
   "url": "http://www.diracprogram.org/doku.php",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
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  {
   "name": "Jmol",
   "url": "http://jmol.sourceforge.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "KeyCAD",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140160635",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
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  {
   "name": "Mathematica",
   "url": "https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license"
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  {
   "name": "Molekel",
   "url": "https://ugovaretto.github.io/molekel/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
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  {
   "name": "MOLPRO",
   "url": "https://www.molpro.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
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  {
   "name": "OpenBabel",
   "url": "https://openbabel.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
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  {
   "name": "Q2383032",
   "url": "https://cdk.github.io/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later / GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "UCSF Chimera",
   "url": "http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/index.html",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
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  {
   "name": "Visual Molecular Dynamics",
   "url": "http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
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   "tool": "GDAL (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
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   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "gdal"
  },
  {
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   "tool": "GDAL (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Values kept; some metadata or band descriptions may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "gdal"
  },
  {
   "to": "portable-network-graphics",
   "tool": "GDAL (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Values scaled to 8-bit greyscale for viewing; georeferencing is dropped.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "gdal"
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