Lobster available NOW!


LOBSTER is out, and you can get it right here! LOBSTER allows you to calculate projected COHP and COOP curves, and also reliable atom-projected DOS, directly based on plane-wave DFT output as given by the VASP or ABINIT or Quantum ESPRESSO packages.

After downloading the package, please take a few minutes to read the instructions in the manual; everything is detailed there. We have also packed a few example files for an easy start. Should there be any questions or problems, do not hesitate to contact us via mail (at) cohp (dot) de.

If you would like to visualize your LOBSTER results, we recommend to use wxDragon. You can download the public version for Windows and Linux systems here:

Link wxDragon (Windows)
Link wxDragon (Linux)

IMPORTANT: if you would like to be informed about future releases, please also consider registration at LOBSTER's mailing list by sending a short message (using the subject "subscribe") to cohp-request (at) lists (dot) rwth-aachen (dot) de. Thank you.

Current Version

Download (897 MB)

LOBSTER 5.0.0 (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) • 2023-09-20

Older versions


LOBSTER 4.1.0 (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) (2021-08-11)