SEUL/Sci: Links



This page contains links to common software and resources relevant to the use of Linux in science and engineering. Suggestions for other GPL or similarly-licenced scientific and engineering software for Linux are welcome, please email pete@seul.org

Contents


Astronomy

Chemistry

Databases and Database Utilities

Documents and Other Resources

Editors and Editing Tools

Electronics

  • GNU Electronic Design Automation (gEDA), a suite of tools for electronics design and simulation http://geda.seul.org/

Format Converters

  • antiword converts DOC (MS Word) files to text or postscript. Although the documentation states that the software is not complete, it does a good job converting the files http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html

Geographical Information Systems

Graphing

Libraries

Math

Meteorology

Parallel Computing

  • Cactus is a modular parallelisation framework which supports many architectures, allowing supercomputing simulation codes to be developed on a laptop running linux, and yet run with no modification on large T3Es, origins, or clusters http://www.cactuscode.org/

Projects

  • The OpenScience Project http://www.openscience.org/
  • Stone Soupercomputer is an excellent example of scientific ingenuity overcoming financial limitations by creating a Beowulf-class cluster from Linux and Alpha-based computers that have been discarded from normal usage. http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/

Reference Management

  • OpenReference is a Servlet/JSP based database application to manage your or your group's research references http://openreference.sourceforge.net/
  • Pybibliographer is a bibliographic database management tool, which supports several current formats: BibTeX, Medline, Ovid, Refer. http://www.gnome.org/pybliographer/
  • Scientific Image Database archives 2-D, 3-D images in a central directory (archive), and provides a perfect means to archive images within the setting of small to medium-sized research groups or wherever people collaborate on images http://sidb.sourceforge.net/
  • Stone Soupercomputer is an excellent example of scientific ingenuity overcoming financial limitations by creating a Beowulf-class cluster from Linux and Alpha-based computers that have been discarded from normal usage. http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/

Sequence Analysis

Statistics

Troubleshooting

Visualization

  • GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data, and is described as "the next edition of XGobi" http://www.ggobi.org/
  • XGobi is a visualization program for multivariate data, and XGvis is described as "a system for multidimensional scaling.and graph layout in any dimension." http://www.research.att.com/~andreas/xgobi/
  • OpenVRML is a free cross-platform runtime for VRML, and includes libraries you can use to add VRML support to an application, and "Lookat", a simple stand-alone VRML browser. http://openvrml.sourceforge.net/

X Servers


More to come, suggestions for other Free Software (GPL or similar licence) applications to include are always welcome.

Software


Freshmeat is the usual place to find Linux software, and occasionally an opinion piece or two. The Scientific Applications on Linux (SAL) site has the most complete catalog of available Linux software for science.

Resources


This page maintaned by Pete St. Onge . Please report any technical problems to webmaster@seul.org
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