List of Scientific Applications

From openSUSE

Chemistry and Biology

• AMMP

Description: AMMP is a modern full-featured molecular mechanics, dynamics and modeling program.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscrwh/ammp/ammp.html

• Ascend

Description: ASCEND is an open source software system for aiding technical people to set up and solve small to very large models described by using equations.
License: GPL
Site: http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/Main_Page

• Avogadro

Description: Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor. It offers flexible rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.
License: GPL v2
Site: http://avogadro.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

• BioJava

Description: BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data.
License: GPL
Site: http://biojava.org/wiki/Main_Page

• fftw

Description: Subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform
License: GPL
Site: http://directory.fsf.org/fftw.html

• GAMGI

Description: GAMGI provides a free package to construct, view and analyse atomic structures.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.gamgi.org/

• GChemPaing

Description: 2D chemical structures editor for the Gnome desktop.
License: GPL
Site:http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/GChemPaint

• gElemental

Description: gElemental is a periodic table viewer that provides detailed information on the chemical elements.
Licence: GPL
Site: http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/gElemental

• ghemical

Description: Ghemical is computational chemistry package.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/projects/ghemical/

• GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit)

Description: The GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. 
License: GPL
Site: http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

• GSL - Gnu Scientific Library

Description: The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

• MPQC

Description: The Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry program, MPQC, computes properties of atoms and molecules from first principles using the time independent Schroedinger equation.
License: GPL
Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpqc/

Data treatment and plotting

• g3data

Description: g3data is used for extracting data from graphs.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/g3data

• Grace (xmgrace)

Description: Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif. It produces print quality plots.
License: GPL
Site: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/

• LabPlot

Description: Data analysis and visualisation.
License: GPL
Site: http://labplot.sourceforge.net/

• QtiPlot

Description: Data analysis and scientific plotting. Free clone of Origin.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/QtiPlot?content=14826

Electronics

• KTechlab

Description: KTechlab is an IDE for electronic circuits and microcontrollers.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KTechlab?content=18943

• LedaX

Description: LedaX is short for (LinuX + EDA (Electronic Design Automation).
License: GPL
Site: http://yaeda.org/

Geography

• GRASS GIS

Description: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System.
License: GPL
Site: http://grass.itc.it/

Mathematics

• MAXIMA

 Description: Maxima is a fairly complete computer algebra system written in lisp with an emphasis on symbolic computation. It is based on DOE-MACSYMA and licensed under the GPL. 
 License: GPL
 Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/

• SINGULAR

Description: A Computer Algebra System for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/index.html

• Yacas

Description: YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions.
License: GPL
Site: http://yacas.sourceforge.net/yacas.html

• Euler

Description: Euler is a powerful numerical laboratory with a programming language.
License: GPL
Site: http://mathsrv.ku-eichstaett.de/MGF/homes/grothmann/euler/euler.html

• IT++

Description: IT++ is a C++ library of mathematical, signal processing and communication system routines/functions.
License: GPL
Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itpp/

• ATLAS

Description: ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) provides highly optimized Linear Algebra kernels for arbitrary cache-based architectures.
License: GPL
Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/math-atlas/

• Octave

Description: GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

• TBCI NumLib

 Description: A templated library of numerical base classes which implement basic data structures (vectors, tensors, ...) and their operations, together with some linear solver.
 License: GPL 2
 Site: http://plasimo.phys.tue.nl/TBCI/

• TeLa

Description: Tela (the TEnsor LAnguage) is a numerical computing environment mainly targeted for numerical simulation pre- and postprocessing work.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.ava.fmi.fi/prog/tela.html

• Scilab

Description: The open source platform for numerical computation.
License: Scilab license – Not compatible with GPL
Site: http://www.scilab.org

Medicine

• Aeskulap

Description: Aeskulap is a medical image viewer and DICOM network client.
License: GPL
Site: http://aeskulap.nongnu.org/

• Gnaural

Description: An opensource binaural-beat generator
License: GPL
Site: http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/

• ICD Browser

Description: This program is an easy to use browser with search capability for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.aperitto.com/content/view/20/41/

• Klusters

Description: Klusters is a powerful and easy-to-use graphical application for spike sorting of extracellular neuronal recordings.
License: GPL
Site: http://klusters.sourceforge.net/

• OpenVista

Description: A cross platform client application for the Veteran Affairs' VistA system and systems derived from VistA, like OpenVista Server.
License: Mixed (see the site)
Site: http://medsphere.org/openvista_cis.html

Statistics

• R

Description: R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.r-project.org/

Others

• Code-aster

Description: A powerful multiphysics code.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.code-aster.org/

• OpenCASCADE

Description: Open CASCADE Technology is software development platform freely available in open source.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.opencascade.org/

• OpenFOAM

Description: The open source CFD toolbox.
License: GPL
Site: http://www.openfoam.org

• SALOME

Description: SALOME is a free software that provides a generic platform for Pre and Post-Processing for numerical simulation.
License: LGPL
Site: http://www.salome-platform.org/home/presentation/overview/