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• Biggles - A Python module for creating publication-quality 2D scientific plots.
• Bioinformatics.Org: Welcome - International organization which promotes freedom and openness in the field of bioinformatics.
• Calc - C-style Arbitrary Precision Calculator - An interactive calculator which provides for easy, large numeric calculations, but which also can be easily programmed for difficult or long calculations.
• Calcoo - A cross-platform RPN and algebraic scientific calculator. Latest release is 1.3.16, 2005-04-27.
• Celestia - Cross-platform planetarium and space simulation software with a database of 100,000+ stars, and a catalogue of more than 100 objects in the solar system.
• DINO Homepage - A real-time 3D visualization program for structural biology data.
• DISLIN - Scientific data plotting software that runs on Linux; N.B.: Proprietary software - free (as in beer) for non-commercial uses.
• Dr Geo - Geometry Exploration Observatory - Interactive geometry software; site available in English, French, and Italian.
• EMAN Main Page - A scientific image processing suite with Python language bindings.
• Earth System Modeling Framework - A high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications.
• Ensembl Genome Browser - Publicly-available database of genomic information and a collection of open source tools used for analyzing genomic data from other public databases.
• Flounder - A quick way to visualize regularly spaced 4D data, i.e., a data set that is a function of x, y, z, and time. Latest version is 0.40, 2003-01-14.
• Folding@home: Distributed Computing - The goal of this project to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Multilingual site.
• Free Mag 7 Star Charts - A downloadable set of high-quality star charts for stars to 7.25 magnitude; licensed under the Creative Commons License.
• GAMGI - General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface - A tool for visualizing atomic structures, such as molecules, liquids, crystals.
• GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools - 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. Latest release is 4.1.3, 2006-06-01.
• GNU/Linux Aviation HOWTO; Flying with GNU/Linux - This document provides pointers to software packages that run under GNU/Linux and are useful to pilots (private, commercial or military), airlines, airports or anyone else in the aeronautical domain. (2006)
• GNU/Linux in Science and Engineering
• GRPN - Graphical Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) Calculator - A graphical reverse polish notation (RPN) calculator. GRPN is written in C and uses the GIMP Toolkit (GTK) on top of X11. Latest release is 1.1.2, 2002-04-04.
• Genius Math tool and the GEL Language - A calculator program; a GNOME2 application.
• GeoGebra - A cross-platform, interactive, mathematics software that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. Primarily used for education in secondary schools.
• Ghemical - Molecular Modelling Package - A GPLed, computational chemistry application. Latest release is 2.12, 2007-09-21.
• Gmsh: a three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities - An automatic 3D finite element grid generator with a build-in CAD engine and post-processor. Latest version is 2.0, 2006-02-05.
• Gnuplot - A cross-platform, portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility. Source code is available, but with a non-free license. N.B.: gnuplot has nothing to do with GNU.
• Gnuplot.py - A Python interface to Gnuplot.
• Grace - A WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif.
• GraphThing - A tool to create, manipulate and study graphs (mathematical objects). Supports the following languages: in Catalan, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish Chef.
• Homepage - www.linuxastronomy.org - Collaboration between volunteers, teenagers, and astronomers. Projects use Linux and open source software.
• INDI - Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface - An instrument-neutral distributed interface control protocol that provides backend driver support and automation for a wide range of astronomical devices including telescopes and CCDs. Latest stable release is 0.5, 2007-05-04.
• IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) Project Home Page - A general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data.
• KFLog Portal - A KDE suite of open source flight planning and analysis programs for gliders.
• KSEG - Simulator of Euclidean Geometry - A free (GPL) interactive geometry program for exploring Euclidean geometry. It runs on UNIX/Linux-based platforms. Available in many languages. Latest release is 0.403, 2006-02-03.
• LabPlot Homepage - A 2D/3D data and functions plotting and visualization program
• Libre Software Engineering - Free/Libre/Open Source software engineering research site.
• Linux Astronomy HOWTO - Tips and resources to utilize Linux solutions in Astronomy.
• Linux4Chemistry - Linux Software for Chemistry - A searchable database of Linux chemistry software.
• LinuxAstro - Astronomical Software on Linux - Last updated in 2001, but most of the links to astronomy software still valid.
• MIT Photonic-Bands Home Page - The MIT Photonic-Bands (MPB) package is a free program for computing the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures, on both serial and parallel computers. Latest release is 1.4.2, 2003-03-03.
• MathGL - Library for Scientific Graphics - A cross-platform, scientific graphics plotting library.
• Mathematica - A computer algebra system. N.B.: proprietary software.
• Matplotlib - A Matlab-style Python 2D plotting package.
• Maxima - A cross-platform application for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions. It is a descendant of acsyma, the legendary computer algebra system developed in the late 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also available in Russian and Spanish.
• Molecular Modelling Toolkit (MMTK) Home Page - A program library written in Python for molecular simulation applications; latest release is 2.4.6, 2006-03-01.
• NCBI BLAST Home Page - BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is one of the most popular open source software tool in bioinformatics.
• Nightfall Eclipsing Binary Star Program - An astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system. It is, however, not able to fry your breakfast egg on yourharddisk. :-( Site also available in German.
• NumExp - Mathematical Computation Environment - A family of open source applications for numeric computation and 2D plot rendering. A GNOME application.
• OSGeo | Your Open Source Compass - The Open Source Geospatial Foundation hosts and supports high-quality open source geospatial software projects related to remote sensing, GIS, mapping and advanced image processing.
• OSSIM - A high-performance open source software system for remote sensing, geographical information systems (GIS), image processing, and photogrammetry.
• OWW - One-Wire Weather Interface - A server and client for Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station kits.
• Open Visualization Data Explorer - Open source visualization software package based on IBM's Visualization Data Explorer. Latest release is 4.4.4, 2006-08-30. N.B.: Users must fill out a personal information form to obtain the source code.
• OpenInformatics.org Homepage - Making scientists more aware of open source software and the benefits to them. Site also contains a science-related software resource list.
• PHP Weather - An application to display the current, local weather on your webpage; available in multiple languages. Current stable release is: 2.2.2, 2004-06-24.
• PLplot Home Page - PLplot is a cross-platform, scientific graphics plotting library. It can be used from within compiled languages such as C, C++, FORTRAN and Java, and interactively from interpreted languages such as Octave, Python, Perl and Tcl. Latest development release is 5.9.0, 2008-02-10.
• Partiview - An industrial strength, interactive, mono- or stereoscopic viewer for 4-dimensional datasets. This application is used by astronomers for interpreting and analyzing large collections of data on the universe.
• Ploticus - Welcome - A cross-platform, non-interactive software package for producing plots, charts, and graphics from data. Latest stable release is 2.4.0, 2008-01-15.
• QtiPlot - A cross-platform data analysis and scientific plotting application; a clone of Origin (Windows proprietary software).
• RLplot Home Page - A cross-platform scientific plotting package.
• SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software - A Free and Open Source software application for studying a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, graph theory, and exact linear algebra. It also has interfaces to non-free software (e.g., MAGMA, Maple, Mathematica).
• Sailcut CAD - A cross-platform sail plotting package for designing and developing boat sails into flat panels.
• SciGraphica Homepage - Scientific Graphics and Data Manipulation - A scientific data visualization and analysis application, supplying many of the basic plotting features for 2D and 3D charts. Latest release is 2.1.1, 2005-06-24.
• SciPy - Scientific tools for Python - Includes modules for graphics and plotting, optimization, integration, special functions, signal and image processing.
• ScientificPython - A collection of Python modules that are useful for scientific computing. Latest stable release is 2.6, 2006-10-06.
• Scilab Home Page - Scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific application. N.B.: free for non-commercial use and commercial use (but code cannot be modified).
• SkyView Virtual Observatory - A virtual observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray.
• SquidBee - A project that uses an open hardware design as well as open source software as a platform for wireless remote control and sensing.
• Stellarium Astronomy Software - A cross-platform desktop planetarium, which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL; its ease-of-use is a big advantage.
• The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) - A network of ftp and web servers around the world that store identical, up-to-date, versions of code and documentation for R.
• The Gerris Flow Solver
• The Groundstation Software Suite - A satellite tracking program for Gnome and a GUI to the Hamradio Control Libraries.
• The KDE Edutainment Project - KStars - Desktop planetarium for KDE.
• The MayaVi Data Visualizer - A Python-based scientific data visualizer; uses the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for the graphics.
• The OpenScience Project - Dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. Software database organized by subject categories.
• The R Project for Statistical Computing - One of the best statistics software packages for Linux.
• The Random Factory -- Scientific Software for Linux - Linux for Astronomy, Biotechnology, and Chemistry with comprehensive collections of software on CD.
• The gretl Home Page -- Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library - Cross-platform software package for econometric analysis.Runs on GNOME 1.4 and 2.0; support French and Spanish.
• UDAV - Universal data Array Visualization - A cross-platform program for data arrays visualization based on the MathGL library.
• VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics
• Welcome to Euler - A mathematical program, with advanced graphic capabilities, that interactively computes real and complex numbers and matrices.
• Welcome to GNU TeXmacs - A free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs.
• Welcome to the Kemistry Homepage! - A collection of chemistry related software for the KDE Desktop Environment. Latest release is 0.7, 2003-01-24.
• X10 Ephem - This code computes sunrise and sunset times.
• XEphem - Astronomy software - A cross-platform, interactive astronomical ephemeris software package.
• XTide: Harmonic Tide Clock and Tide Predictor - XTide is a package that provides tide and current predictions in a wide variety of formats. Graphs, text listings, and calendars can be generated, or a tide clock can be provided on the desktop. Latest release is 2.9.4, 2007-09-03.
• XaoS - A fast interactive real-time fractal zoomer and morpher.
• Xplanet - Xplanet was inspired by Xearth, which renders an image of the earth into the X root window. Xplanet can also render images of the other planets and some satellites. Latest stable release is 1.2.0, 2005-06-16.
• Xplns - reproduces real starry sky
• Yacas - Yet Another Computer Algebra System - An easy-to-use general purpose computer algebra system. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. Latest stable release is 1.2.0, 2007-09-21.
• Yorick: An Interpreted Scientific Programming Language - An interpreted programming language for scientific simulations or calculations, postprocessing or steering large simulation codes, interactive scientific graphics, and reading, writing, or translating large files of numbers.
• Yplot - A Yorick interface to PLplot.

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