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New! **** 1. Saros
Saros is a research project to enable distributed pair programming (also called remote pair programming) in the Java IDE Eclipse. Saros supports real-time collaboration by two and more peers and adds many features to increase awareness and presence regarding the whereabouts of each peer.
**** 2. Quantum-Espresso
Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).
**** 3. View3D: calculation of radiation view factors in 2D and 3D
View3D is a command-line tool for evaluating radiation view factors for scenes with complex 2D and 3D geometry. It uses an adaptive integration method to calculate the view factors between faces where there is partial obstruction from inbetween faces. This program can be used to calculate the view factors (aka shape factors/configuration factors/form factors) for radiant heat transfer in diffuse grey enclosures.
**** 4. KNIME
KNIME, pronounced [naim], is a modular data exploration platform that enables the user to visually create data flows (often referred to as pipelines), selectively execute some or all analysis steps, and later investigate the results through interactive views on data and models.
**** 5. OpenFlower - Open Source CFD Software
OpenFlower (FLOW solvER) is a C++ open source CFD code mainly intended to solve the turbulent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a LES approach. It can deal with arbitrary complex 3D geometries with its finite volume approach (multi-elements meshes are accepeted).
****1/2 6. SwisTrack: Multi-Object Video Tracking Software
SwisTrack allows for tracking multiple objects such as insects or robots from a video stream provided by a file or directly from a camera. SwisTrack's user interface allows adjusting parameters on the flight, and thus allow to find an optimal tracking configuration choosing from a suite of already implemented algorithms for segmentation and filtering in an intuitive fashion. Contributing code to SwisTrack is made easy as tracking core and GUI share an XML description of available tracking modes and its parameters.
**** 7. Open Visualization Data Explorer
IBM's famous volume renderer that does much much more.
**** 8. Weka
Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes.
****1/2 9. Elmer
Elmer is an Open Source Finite Element Software for Multiphysical Problems. Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM).
****1/2 10. RapidMiner
RapidMiner (formerly YALE) is an open-source data mining solution. Applications of RapidMiner cover a wide range of real-world data mining tasks.
**** 11. AGM Build
A molecular builder and conformational editor. AGM Build can be used for interactive model preparation for molecular dynamics simulations, including association of atom types and partial charges. Features: * Geometry editing * Lattice building * Building of chain molecules (for example proteins) * Chains with predetermined conformations * Charges and atom types according to selected Force Field
**** 12. OpenFVM
OpenFVM is a general open source three-dimensional CFD solver (for Linux and Windows). It uses the unstructured finite volume method to simulate non-isothermal transient flow. Gmsh is used for pre- and post- processing.
**** 13. Gabedit
Gabedit is a graphical interface to Gaussian, Molcas and Molpro computational chemistry packages running locally or on a remote server. It includes a 3D molecule editor and viewer. Most major molecular file formats are supported and graphics can be exported in many formats.
**** 14. Code Aster
Code Aster is a genaral purpose FEA code. It has the ability to solve problems in non-linear thermo-mechanics, coupled fluid-structure dynamics, sismic/non-linear explicit dynamics, contacts, and visco-plasticity.
**** 15. Open Source Image Velocimetry
OSIV is a program written to perform cross-correlation analysis of particle image velocimetry (PIV) images. The program was designed to be both very modular and quite efficient. It incorporates most of the tried-and-true algorithms and some of the more recent additions to the PIV toolkit.
**** 16. KStars
The Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
****1/2 17. FELLA (Free Electron Laser Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Program Package)
The software package FELLA has been written for basic research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. The atomic physics programs treat the atomic electronic structure in Hartree-Fock-Slater approximation and the interaction of electrons with light of up to two colors. The molecular physics programs treat the x-ray absorption by laser-aligned molecules. An optical physics code describes the propagation of a laser and x-rays through a gaseous medium. Especially, FELLA has been inspired by the upcoming x-ray free electron lasers to study atoms and molecules in their light in combination with intense optical lasers. However FELLA is more general and has been used so far to study atoms and molecules in the light of third-generation synchrotrons.
***1/2 18. cb2bib - From clipboard to BibTeX: A tool for extracting bibliographic references
From clipboard to BibTeX: A tool for rapidly extracting unformatted bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages, and PDF files. The cb2Bib facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and non standard sources. Output references are written in BibTeX. Article files can be easily linked and renamed by dragging it onto the cb2Bib window. Additionally, it permits editing and browsing BibTeX files, searching references and the contents of linked files, and cite them into document editors.
**1/2 19. ChemCalc
ChemCalc is intended to be a calculator oriented towards chemistry.
**** 20. Seismic Unix (SU) home page
Seismic Unix aka SU - Open Source Seismic Processing package for Unix/ Linux - Source Download - Documentation - Graphical interfaces are available (TKSU and I_SU)
**** 21. Jmol
Jmol is a free, open source molecule viewer for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems. It includes a web browser applet that can be integrated into web pages, a standalone Java application that runs on the desktop, and a development tool kit that can be integrated into other Java applications.
**** 22. Avogadro
Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers a flexible rendering engine and a powerful plugin architecture.
***1/2 23. JSpecView
JSpecView is a viewer for spectral data in the JCAMP-DX format.
**** 24. OpenSim
OpenSim is an open-source software system that lets users develop models of musculoskeletal structures and create dynamic simulations of movement. The software provides a platform on which the biomechanics community can build a library of simulations that can be exchanged, tested, analyzed, and improved through multi-institutional collaboration.
***1/2 25. VASP Data Viewer
A free, open source 3D viewer for molecular charge distributions.
****1/2 26. ImageJ
ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. Downloadable distributions are available for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". It supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window. It is multithreaded, so time-consuming operations such as image file reading can be performed in parallel with other operations.
**** 27. FreePOOMA C++ Numerical Library
FreePOOMA is a C++ library supporting element-wise, data-parallel, and stencil-based physics computations using one or more processors. The library automatically handles all interprocessor communication, obviating the need for any explicit communication code. The library supports high-level syntax close to mathematical or algorithmic syntax (like Fortran 95), easing the conversion from algorithms to code.
****1/2 28. SAGE
SAGE is free open source math software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, and related areas. Both the SAGE development model and the technology in SAGE itself is distinguished by an extremely strong emphasis on openness, community, cooperation, and collaboration: we are building the car, not reinventing the wheel. The overall goal of SAGE is to create a viable free open source alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Magma, and MATLAB.
***1/2 29. The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK)
e CDK classes are Java utitility classes for ChemoInformatics and Computational chemistry, written in Java. They are developed constantly developed parallel to other projects that make use of them. They are a complete re-write of the CompChem classes that were the basis of JChemPaint, a Java Editor for 2D chemical structures, and of JMDraw, a Java package for the graphical layout of 2D chemical structures.
****1/2 30. Scilab
Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations in a user-friendly environment. It features: Elaborate data structures (polynomial, rational and string matrices, lists, multivariable linear systems,...). Sophisticated interpreter and programming language with Matlab-like syntax. Hundreds of built-in math functions (new primitives can easily be added). Stunning graphics (2d, 3d, animation). Open structure (easy interfacing with Fortran and C via online dynamic link). Many built-in libraries: Linear Algebra (including sparse matrices, Kronecker form, ordered Schur,...). Control (Classical, LQG, H-infinity,...). Package for LMI (Linear Matrix Inequalities) optimization. Signal processing. Simulation (various ode's, dassl,...). Optimization (differentiable and non-differentiable, LQ solver). Scicos, an interactive environment for modeling and simulation of dynamical systems. Metanet (network analysis and optimization). Symbolic capabilities through Maple interface. Parallel Scilab.
****1/2 31. SourceForge - Science and Engineering
SourceForge is a web based service dedicated free hosting for opensource developers and their user base. Their site currently hosts over 90,000 open source projects which may be searched via multiple project parameters. Specific to the OpenScience focus, users can find over 7,000 projects under the science and engineering category.
****1/2 32. CAE Linux
A Linux distribution designed specifically for computer aided engineering. Based on the open-source CAE Salom & Code_Aster software, you can load STEP / IGES geometry in Salom and start partitionning and meshing your problem in just 5 minutes.
****1/2 33. K3DSurf
K3DSurf is a program for visualizing and manipulating multidimensional surfaces by using Mathematical equations. It's also a "modeler" for POV-Ray in the area of parametric surfaces. It features 3D, 4D, 5D, and 6D HyperObjects visualization, full support for all functions (like the C language), support for mouse events in the drawing area, animation and morph effects, Povscript and mesh file generation, and support for VRML2 and OBJ files. More than 100 examples are provided.
**** 34. Gpiv
Gpiv is a graphic user interface program for recording and analyzing images obtained from a fluid flow that has been seeded with tracer particles by the so-called Particle Image Velocimetry technique (PIV). The program allows to have a quick overview of the parameter settings of all processes, easily changing them, executing the processes and visualizing their results in an interactive way.
**** 35. GFortran
Gfortran is the name of the GNU Fortran 95 project, developing a free Fortran 95 compiler for GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. The gfortran development effort uses an open development environment in order to attract a larger team of developers and to ensure that gfortran can work on multiple architectures and diverse environments.
**** 36. JChemPaint
A Java program for drawing of 2D chemical structures
**** 37. LabPlot
Data analysis and visualisation. A new KDE-based graphing / plotting package that looks very powerful.
**** 38. LAPACK++
Linear Algebra Package in C++
***1/2 39. MatPy
MatPy is a Python package for numerical computation and plotting with a MatLab-like interface.
****1/2 40. GAMESS
The General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System is a freely availible general ab initio quantum chemistry package. Free graphics programs are also availible for downloading.
**** 41. PSI3
The PSI3 suite of quantum chemical programs is designed for efficient, high-accuracy calculations of properties of small to medium-sized molecules. The package's current capabilities include a variety of Hartree-Fock, coupled cluster, complete-active-space self-consistent-field, and multi-reference configuration interaction models.
**** 42. Ghemical
Ghemical is a computational chemistry software package released under the GNU GPL. Ghemical can do all-atoms molecular mechanics (there is an experimental Tripos 5.2-like force field for organic molecules), and reduced protein models.
***1/2 43. BKchem
BKchem is free chemical drawing program with many features, written in python.
*** 44. MV++
MV++ is a small, efficient, set of concrete vector and simple matrix classes for numerical computing.
****1/2 45. AMBER
AMBER is group of programs used for simulation of biomolecules. It is highly efficient parallel MD simulation program written in FORTRAN.
****1/2 46. Quantum GIS (QGIS)
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost.
**** 47. PyMOL
PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations.
****1/2 48. GAUL: Genetic Algorithm Utility Library
A Genetic Algorithm Routine Library
**1/2 49. Chemsuite Project
Chemsuite is a set of programs intended to provide to chemists an alternative to commercial chemistry office suites.
**** 50. V_Sim
V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries, etc. V_Sim can use information from files in binary d3 format, in ascii, or in "xyz" format.
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