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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Maxima: Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions. Also has a graphical interface built in wxWidgets called wxMaxima (http://andrejv.github.com/wxmaxima/).
4. Nova: Nova is a free Integrated Observational Environment for astronomers. It combines an Ephemeris functionality with the capability of controlling modern "goto"Telescopes and popular CCD cameras.
5. Fast C++ matrix library with optional interfaces to LAPACK and ATLAS: Armadillo is a C++ linear algebra library (matrix and vector maths) aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. It's distributed under a license that is useful in both commercial and open-source contexts. This library is useful if C++ has been decided as the language of choice (due to speed and/or integration capabilities), rather than another language like Matlab or GNU Octave. Armadillo uses a delayed evaluation approach in order to combine several operations into one and reduce (or eliminate) the need for temporaries. This is accomplished through extensive use of recursive templates and template meta-programming. Furthermore, it optionally provides interfaces to LAPACK and ATLAS functions.
6. 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).
7. 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.
8. Gretl: Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library) is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It is is free, open-source software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
9. Celestia: A free 3D space simulator that lets you travel through the solar system and beyond to over 100,000 stars.
10. 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.
11. Open Visualization Data Explorer: IBM's famous volume renderer that does much much more.
12. 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).
13. Salome: SALOME is a free software that provides a generic platform for Pre and Post-Processing for numerical simulation. It is based on an open and flexible architecture made of reusable components available as free software. It is open-source (LGPL), and you can download both the sourcecode and the executables from this site. Salome Platform: * Supports interoperability between CAD modeling and computation software (CAD-CAE link) * Makes easier the integration of new components on heterogeneous systems for numerical computation * Sets the priority to multi-physics coupling between computation software * Provides a generic user interface, user-friendly and efficient, which helps to reduce the costs and delays of carrying out the studies * Reduces training time to the specific time for learning the software solution which has been based on this platform * All functionalities are accessible through the programmatic integrated Python console
14. AcouSTO (Acoustics Simulation TOol): AcouSTO (Acoustics Simulation TOol) is an open source Boundary Element Method (BEM) solver for the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz Integral Equation (KHIE). The code is released under GPL v3.0.
15. Swarm: Swarm is a software package for multi-agent simulation of complex systems.
16. 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.
17. MCCCS Towhee: Towhee is a Monte Carlo molecular simulation code originally designed for the prediction of fluid phase equilibria using atom-based force fields and the Gibbs ensemble with particular attention paid to algorithms addressing molecule conformation sampling. The code has subsequently been extended to several ensembles, many different force fields, and solid (or porous) phases.
18. 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).
19. Stellarium: Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. It renders the skies in realtime using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium is very simple to use, which is one of its biggest advantages: it can easily be used by beginners.
20. Madagascar: Madagascar is an open-source software package for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments. Its mission is to provide a convenient and powerful environment and a convenient technology transfer tool for researchers working with digital image and data processing. The technology developed using the Madagascar project management system is transferred in the form of recorded processing histories, which become "computational recipes" to be verified, exchanged, and modified by users of the system.
21. Free Science Resource: A Free Science Info Site (mainly books, software, links)
22. 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.
23. Open Source Seismic Interpretation System: OpendTect is an open source seismic interpretation software system for processing, visualizing and interpreting multi-volume seismic data, and for fast-track development of innovative interpretation tools. Optionally OpendTect can be extended with (closed source) commercial plugins.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. JabRef bibliography manager: JabRef is a graphical application for managing bibliographical databases. The main focus is on BibTeX databases, but other database formats will be supported as well. JabRef is distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License, runs on all platforms and requires java 1.4.
27. 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)
28. 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.
29. Aciqra: Aciqra is an open source virtual planetarium which tracks the locations of planets, the sun and moon along with Earth's shadow and displays the phases of the moon and planets in realtime. The program also includes several widgets which give it added functionality including Epidermidis graphing, planet location lister, an Eclipse finder and a conjunction engine.
30. LAM/MPI Parallel Computing: LAM/MPI is a high-quality open-source implementation of the Message Passing Interface specification, including all of MPI-1.2 and much of MPI-2. Intended for production as well as research use, LAM/MPI includes a rich set of features for system administrators, parallel programmers, application users, and parallel computing researchers.
31. OpenFOAM: The OpenFOAM (Field Operation and Manipulation) software package can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options.
32. Python and Scientific Computation: The home page for Scientific Computing with Python.
33. PAML: Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood
34. GMT - Generic Mapping Tools: GMT is an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transformations and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. GMT is developed and maintained by Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith with help from a global set of volunteers, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. It is released under the GNU General Public License.
35. Blitz++ library: Blitz++ is a C++ class library for scientific computing which provides performance on par with Fortran 77/90. It uses template techniques to achieve high performance. The current versions provide dense arrays and vectors, random number generators, and small vectors and matrices.
36. Avida: Avida is an auto-adaptive genetic system designed primarily for use as a platform in Digital or Artificial Life research. In lay terms, Avida is a digital world in which self-replicating computer programs mutate and evolve. Avida allows the user to study questions and perform experiments in evolutionary dynamics and theoretical biology that are intractable in real biological systems.
37. Open-SESSAME Framework: The Open-Source, Extensible Spacecraft Simulation And Modeling Environment (Open-SESSAME) is a collection of libraries, toolkits, and extension points that provide a framework for creating and analyzing spacecraft models of varying complexity.
38. JPIV Particle Image Velocimetry: JPIV is a software package for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The program is open source and platform independent.
39. OOFEM: is an object oriented, parallel, multiphysics finite element code system for solving mechanical, transport and fluid mechanics problems.
40. 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.
41. IMTEK Mathematica Supplement (IMS): The IMS is an open source Mathamtica Add-On providing more than 650 functions to Mathamtica: a nD fintie element environment, a circtuit simulator, model orde reduction, unstructured plotting and visualization. Many tutorials for simulation, Quamtum Mechanics and interfaces to VTK, HDL, Ansys, Tetgen, Triangle and more
42. Lybniz: Lybniz is an easy to use mathematical function graph plotter using pyGTK. It is sutable for use as a graphing calculator or in education
43. 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.
44. Open Natural Language Processing Projects: linguistic analysis software
45. HMMER: Profile hidden Markov models for biological sequence analysis.
46. BioCatalogue - the Life Sciences Web Service Registry: The BioCatalogue is a registry of biological Web Services. The BioCatalogue website is freely accessible to the world as it is searchable and indexable to search engines. It provides an open platform for biological Web Services registration, annotation and monitoring.
47. Open Access: Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public?: Amanda Schaffer' Medical Examiner column in Slate magazine on the topic of the public library of science. Highly recommended.
48. 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.
49. OpenMap: Open Systems Mapping Technology - allows users to see and manipulate geospatial information.
50. DeltaStat: DeltaStat performs statistical calculations on data from 2D gel experiments. DeltaStat combines the power of R, a language for statistics, with the efficiency of a relational database to handle the large amount of data generated in proteomics experiments.

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