Comparing Cultures

bedtools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features. The BEDTools utilities allow one to address common genomics tasks such as finding feature overlaps and computing coverage. The utilities are largely based on four widely-used file formats: BED, GFF/GTF, VCF, and SAM/BAM.... Platforms: Mac

A file hasher written in java 1.6 capable of generating MD5, CRC32, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 checksums of any file as well as comparing generated checksums. Requires Java Runtime Environment 1.6 Platforms: Mac

HOPPscore is a simple application for evaluating the structural quality of theoretical or experimental protein structures. Protein are evaluated by comparing structure fragments to a reference dictionary of fragments from high resolution structures. Features . Protein Structure Quality... Platforms: *nix

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses... Platforms: *nix

boto-rsync is a rough adaptation of boto's s3put script which has been reengineered to more closely mimic rsync. Its goal is to provide a familiar rsync-like wrapper for boto's S3 and Google Storage interfaces. By default, the script works recursively and differences between files are checked by... Platforms: *nix

Peklo is a graph editor and an environment for visualizing and comparing different algorithms for some graph-theoretic problems, e.g. flows, shortest path, minimum spanning tree. Platforms: *nix

Testmania is a library that complements standard unittest module with few convenient assert functions. Such as for comparing deeply nested simple data structures or xmls. All assert methods are presented as global functions, not tied to the TestCase class. Also testmania exposes all built-in... Platforms: *nix

The new features in unittest for Python 2.7 backported to Python 2.3+. unittest2 is a backport of the new features added to the unittest testing framework in Python 2.7. It is tested to run on Python 2.4 - 2.7. Thanks to Mark Roddy, there is also a version of for Python 2.3. This is maintained... Platforms: *nix

XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems (GNU/Linux, *BSDs, etc.), but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems like Windows. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils. The core of the XZ Utils compression... Platforms: *nix

LZMA Utils are legacy data compression software with high compression ratio. LZMA Utils are no longer developed, although critical bugs may be fixed as long as fixing them doesn't require huge changes to the code. Users of LZMA Utils should move to XZ Utils. XZ Utils support the legacy .lzma... Platforms: *nix

XML Zebra is an XML schema differencing tool that works by creating a "fingerprint" file for a set of schemas. The "fingerprint" contains paths (like XPaths, but extended with extra information) that define what is allowed in valid XML documents for those schemas. By comparing versions of the... Platforms: *nix

MultiGet is a homepage downloader with a nice GUI for linux/windows/unix desktop users.It can run on almost all desktops without any configuration. It has many powerful functions comparing to others. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C#, BSD Solaris

If you select more than a font you will be able to confront only selected fonts. Each blocked character in the char map shows, in the bottom right-hand corner of its block, the keyboard key to enter for that character. This is a big improvement on the Windows Character Map, which requires that... Platforms: Windows

A small and fast FREEWARE program enabling you to search a number of large book search engines for new and used books through the Internet. Ideal for finding rare or hard-to-find books, or for comparing prices. Search by keyword, author, or title. Platforms: Windows

Wysigot is the browser that monitors any site or any file anywhere (web, ftp, LAN, local). With its powerful tools for capturing, updating, sorting, comparing, archiving, showing anything new (alarms, highlighting modified texts, ...), with its powerful settings and its three searching modes,... Platforms: Windows

Gambler's Odds is software for analysis and comparing the odds of different casino games and different bet systems. Software allows choosing the game and bet system to match the individual preferences of player. You can analyze and compare different games and money systems to select the best... Platforms: Windows

Emsa Disk Check is a dual-purpose utility, for disk checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also benchmarking. What it does, is scanning/reading the entire contents of a disk (CD, DVD or hard drive; or even floppy) and show any read errors that may appear, but also show drive speed... Platforms: Windows

Auto Loan Calculator is a free Microsoft Excel workbook that lets you (1) estimate the amount you'll need to finance when purchasing a car, (2) create a loan payment schedule with optional extra payments, and (3) analyze different loan options. The Auto Loan Calculator worksheet helps you... Platforms: Windows

TeraCopy is a free utility designed to copy files faster and more secure. It automatically switches between synchronous and asynchronous modes to improve the speed of file transfers. File verification: TeraCopy can test files after copy to ensure they are identical. This is done by comparing... Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Free command line utility for file multi-checksum generation and verification. It allows to create/verify popular file hashes/checksums: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2(256,384,512), RIPEMD-160, PANAMA, TIGER, CRC-32, ADLER32, and the message digest used in eMule/eDonkey (ed2k) software. Its most... Platforms: Windows