Scientists

Spasmos is a Python package that allows scientists to simulate the dynamics of highly collisional plasmas using a number of numerical methods. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Little b is a Lisp-based language which allows scientists to build shareable, reusable mathematical models of complex systems based on shared parts. The initial focus is molecular and multicellular networks.Project web page: http://www.littleb.org Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) is a software interface and database system that provides tools for describing, cataloging, retrieving, and viewing the visual, descriptive, and quantitative data associated with video. Developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute... Platforms: *nix

"It takes from 10 to 15 years to bring a new drug to market?at a cost rapidly approaching $1 billion. A key contributor to these staggering costs is late-stage failure: Of every 250 compounds that enter preclinical testing, only five proceed into clinical trials, and only one will be approved by... Platforms: Matlab

Engineers, scientists, and financial analysts frequently use optimization methods to solve computationally expensive problems such as smoothing the large computational meshes used in fluid dynamic simulations, performing image registration, or analyzing high-dimensional financial portfolios.... Platforms: Matlab

The Servo System Blockset is designed to provide a modern design tool that will allow scientists and engineers to rapidly and easily build models that simulate servo systems.It has blocks for the simulation of(1) Permanent Magnet DC Motor (Armature Control)(2) Field Controlled DC Motor(3) ED 4400... Platforms: Matlab

sMeta is a very simple, extensible Java API for reading metadata from files of various formats, such as ID3 tags from MP3 files, EXIF data from JPEG files, chunks from PNG files, etc. If you have a need to read metadata from files, sMeta can help you. Some metadata formats sMeta implements... Platforms: Mac

The Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) is a software interface and database system that provides tools for describing, cataloging, retrieving, and viewing the visual, descriptive, and quantitative data associated with video. Developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute... Platforms: Mac

The Lemur Project develops search engines, browser toolbars, text analysis tools, and data resources that support research and development of information retrieval and text mining software. The project is best known for its Indri search engine, Lemur Toolbar, and ClueWeb09 dataset. Our software... Platforms: *nix

surfit is a computer program which enables to calculate regular grid from various data (scattered points, 2D and 3D contours, surfaces, etc) in different ways (interpolation, approximation, inequalities, etc). surfit implements the original gridding method. surfit is an Open Source and Free... Platforms: *nix

PythonToolkit (PTK) is an interactive environment for python. It was originally designed to provide a python based environment similiar to Matlab for scientists and engineers when used together with the numpy, scipy and matplotlib python packages. However it can also be used as a general purpose... Platforms: *nix

Free software developed for automation of professional measurement systems, data acquisition, processing and analysis. Especially suitable for scientists who would like to make high-performance, precise measurements in the experimental physics. Optimized for real-time operation,... Platforms: Windows

SimplexNumerica is an object-oriented numerical data analyzer, plot and presentation program. SimplexNumerica is proving to be extremely popular among scientists. Ergonomic programming using the newest Windows programming guidelines with toolbars, context dialogs and interactive diagrams... Platforms: Windows

EMBOSS is "The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite", it is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of... Platforms: Most OSs

LCD enclosure wallpaper. The next generation of displays are LCD's. The reason behind continuing computer evolution is the continuing thirst we have for speed and capacity of our computers. Way back in 1947 an engineer and computing expert, Howard Aiken, predicted that all the United States need... Platforms: Windows, *nix

CountYourEuro! project is a collaborative data collection project studying the distribution of EuroCoins. The idea of CYE (count your Euros) is to collect data on EuroCoins all over Europe, to analyze the flow of Euros. CYE is a client through which you can enter coin data. see all Euro coin... Platforms: *nix

PHPBibMan is a Web-based literature database for scientific purposes. It is fully compatible with BibTex and offer comfortable exchange of references for scientists.. Platforms: *nix

Optimization Algorithm Toolkit is a workbench and toolkit for developing, evaluating, and playing with classical and state-of-the-art optimization algorithms on standard benchmark problem domains; including reference algorithm implementations, graphing, visualizations and much more. The project... Platforms: *nix

KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a network transparent contemporary... Platforms: *nix

KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a network transparent contemporary... Platforms: *nix