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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. Celestia: A free 3D space simulator that lets you travel through the solar system and beyond to over 100,000 stars.
7. Emergent: Emergent (a major rewrite of PDP++) is a comprehensive simulation environment for creating complex, sophisticated models of the brain and cognitive processes using neural network models. These same networks can also be used for all kinds of other more pragmatic tasks, like predicting the stock market or analyzing data. It includes a full GUI environment for constructing networks and the input/output patterns for the networks to process, and many different analysis tools for understanding what the networks are doing. It has a new tabbed-browser style interface with full 3D graphics (via OpenGL and Open Inventor/Coin3D), and powerful new GUI programming tools and data processing and analysis capabilities.
8. Free Science Resource: A Free Science Info Site (mainly books, software, links)
9. Babel: Babel is a program designed to interconvert a number of file formats currently used in molecular modeling.
10. Ensembl Genome Server: Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL-EBI and the Sanger Centre to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes.
11. OOFEM: is an object oriented, parallel, multiphysics finite element code system for solving mechanical, transport and fluid mechanics problems.
12. HFLOAT: The HUGE-FLOAT package. It's for computations with very long (huge!) floating point numbers. With hfloat you can compute pi to several million digits.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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).
16. 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).
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Swarm: Swarm is a software package for multi-agent simulation of complex systems.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. FreeGIS: Free GIS Software and Free Geo-Data
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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).
26. myExperiment: myExperiment makes it easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and other Research Objects, and to build communities.
27. jHepWork: Data analysis framework
28. OpenScientist: OpenScientist is an integration of open source products working together to do scientific visualization and data analysis ; in particular for high energy physics (HEP).
29. 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.
30. myExperiment: The myExperiment Virtual Research Environment enables you and your colleagues to share digital items associated with your research in particular it enables you to share and execute scientific workflows. You can use www.myexperiment.org to find publicly shared workflows. If you want further access, and the ability to upload and share workflows, you will need to sign up.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. Bioperl: The Bioperl Project is an international association of developers of open source Perl tools for bioinformatics, genomics and life science research.
34. Open Visualization Data Explorer: IBM's famous volume renderer that does much much more.
35. 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.
36. 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
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. Jumper 2.0: Jumper 2.0 is enterprise web-infrastructure for data virtualization. Jumper 2.0 lets you search and share high-value data across remote locations using tag metadata to capture knowledge about data in remote data stores. It collects these meta-tag profiles in a Knowledge base and search engine.
42. Edwin H. Connell: Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra: A free online textbook on abstract algebra with emphasis on linear algebra.
43. Open Metaheuristics: oMetah is a set of tools for the conception of metaheuristics (i.e. genetic/evolutionnary algorithms, tabu search, simulated annealing, ant colony algorithms, etc.) for hard mono-objective continuous optimization problem. One of the main goal of oMetah is to permit rigourous empirical tests of metaheuristics, through a statistical approach.
44. NanoCAD: A freeware nanotech design system in Java
45. 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).
46. OpenOpt: Universal cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac OS) Python-written numerical optimization toolbox. License: new BSD. Problems: NLP, LP, QP, SDP, SOCP, DFP(Non-linear Data Fit), NSP(nonsmooth), MILP, LSP, LLSP, MMP, GLP, MINLP etc. Connects to dozens of solvers (some are C- or Fortran-written). Provides graphic output of convergence and some more numerical optimization "MUST HAVE" features. Can involve automatic differentiation of FuncDesigner (http://openopt.org/FuncDesigner) models.
47. Walldrawer: Walldrawer - an easy alternative to on-site wall drawing for archaeology. This software aims at putting together the tools needed to produce scaled, rectified, drawing-like pictures from digital photographs in archaeological excavations. This software was developed in Java using Java Advanced Imaging toolkit, but at the moment development is stopped. Functionality is not 100% however try using it, it is worth.
48. 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)
49. maxima: MAXIMA is a fairly complete computer algebra system.
50. 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.

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