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== Science == | == Science == | ||
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{{Note|1=For possibly more up to date selection of scientific applications, try checking the [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=15&SeB=nd&SB=v&SO=d&PP=50 AUR 'science' category]}} | {{Note|1=For possibly more up to date selection of scientific applications, try checking the [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=15&SeB=nd&SB=v&SO=d&PP=50 AUR 'science' category]}} | ||
− | === Scientific | + | === Scientific documents === |
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+ | {{Box||See the main article: [[List of Applications/Documents#Scientific Documents]]|#E5E5FF|#FCFCFC}} | ||
=== Mathematics === | === Mathematics === | ||
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==== Calculator ==== | ==== Calculator ==== | ||
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of software calculators}} | {{Wikipedia|Comparison of software calculators}} | ||
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:bc programming language|bc]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:bc programming language|bc]]|Arbitrary precision calculator language.|http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/|{{Pkg|bc}}}} |
− | * {{App|calc| | + | * {{App|calc|Arbitrary precision console calculator.|http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/|{{Pkg|calc}}}} |
− | * {{App|Extcalc| | + | * {{App|Extcalc|Qt-based scientfic graphical calculator.|http://extcalc-linux.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|extcalc}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:GCalctool|GCalctool]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:GCalctool|GCalctool]]|Scientific calculator included in the GNOME desktop.|http://www.gnome.org|{{AUR|gcalctool-oldgui}}}} |
− | * {{App|KAlgebra| | + | * {{App|KAlgebra|Calculator and 3D plotter included in KDE EDU.|http://www.kde.org/applications/education/kalgebra/|{{Pkg|kdeedu-kalgebra}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KCalc|KCalc]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KCalc|KCalc]]|Scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.|http://kde.org/applications/utilities/kcalc/|{{Pkg|kdeutils-kcalc}}}} |
− | * {{App|Qalculate| | + | * {{App|Qalculate|Calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.|http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/|{{Pkg|libqalculate}}}} |
− | * {{App|SpeedCrunch| | + | * {{App|SpeedCrunch|Fast, high precision and powerful cross-platform calculator.|http://speedcrunch.org|{{AUR|speedcrunch}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:xcalc|xcalc]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:xcalc|xcalc]]|Scientific calculator for X with algebraic and reverse polish notation modes.|http://xorg.freedesktop.org/|{{Pkg|xorg-xcalc}}}} |
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+ | ==== Computer algebra system ==== | ||
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of computer algebra systems}} | {{Wikipedia|Comparison of computer algebra systems}} | ||
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Fermat (computer algebra system)|Fermat]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Fermat (computer algebra system)|Fermat]]|Computer algebra system that does arithmetic of arbitrarily long integers and fractions, multivariate polynomials, symbolic calculations, matrices over polynomial rings, graphics, and other numerical calculations.|http://home.bway.net/lewis/|{{AUR|fermat}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Mathomatic|Mathomatic]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:GAP (computer algebra system)|GAP]]|Computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.|http://www.gap-system.org|{{AUR|gap-math}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Maxima (software)|Maxima]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Mathomatic|Mathomatic]]|General purpose Computer Algebra System written in C.|http://www.mathomatic.org/|{{Pkg|mathomatic}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:PARI/GP|PARI/GP]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Maxima (software)|Maxima]]|[[Wikipedia:Maple (software)|Maple]]/[[Wikipedia:Wolfram Mathematica|Mathematica]]-like program with a wxWidgets based frontend.|http://maxima.sourceforge.net/|{{Pkg|maxima}} {{Pkg|wxmaxima}}}} |
− | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:PARI/GP|PARI/GP]]|Computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory.|http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/|{{Pkg|pari}}}} | |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Xcas|Xcas]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Xcas|Xcas]]|User interface to Giac, a free, basic computer algebra system.|http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html|{{AUR|xcas}}}} |
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+ | ==== Scientific or technical computing ==== | ||
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of numerical analysis software}} | {{Wikipedia|Comparison of numerical analysis software}} | ||
− | * {{App|EngLab| | + | * {{App|EngLab|Cross-compile mathematical platform with a C like syntax.|http://englab.bugfest.net|{{AUR|englab}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Euler (software)|Euler]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Euler (software)|Euler]]|Numerical application designed for higher level math such as calculus, optimization, and statistics that uses Maxima for symbolic operations.|http://euler.sourceforge.net|{{AUR|euler}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:FreeMat|FreeMat]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:FreeMat|FreeMat]]|Matlab-like program that supports many of its functions and features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and 3D visualization capabilities.|http://freemat.sourceforge.net/|{{Pkg|freemat}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Octave]]| | + | * {{App|[[Octave]]|[[Matlab]]-like language and interface for numerical computations.|http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ |{{Pkg|octave}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:matplotlib|PyLab]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:matplotlib|PyLab]]|Collection of Python modules (pyplot, numpy, etc.) used for scientific calculations.|http://www.scipy.org/PyLab|{{Pkg|python2-matplotlib}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Scilab|Scilab]]| | + | * {{App|[[Sage]]|Mathematics software system, that combines many existing open-source packages into a common Python interface. Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.|http://www.sagemath.org|{{Pkg|sage-mathematics}}}} |
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Scilab|Scilab]]|Matlab alternative used for numerical computations. Its syntax is not equivalent to that of Matlab, but it can be easily converted.|http://www.scilab.org/|{{AUR|scilab}}}} | ||
==== Statistics ==== | ==== Statistics ==== | ||
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of statistical packages}} | {{Wikipedia|Comparison of statistical packages}} | ||
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Just another Gibbs sampler|JAGS]] (Just another Gibbs sampler)| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Just another Gibbs sampler|JAGS]] (Just another Gibbs sampler)|Cross-platform program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.|http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|jags}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:PSPP|PSPP]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:PSPP|PSPP]]|Free SPSS implementation.|http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/|{{AUR|pspp}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[R]]| | + | * {{App|[[R]]|Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.|http://cran.r-project.org/|{{Pkg|r}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:RKWard|RKWard]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:RKWard|RKWard]]|Frontend for the statistical language R.|http://rkward.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|rkward}}}} |
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+ | ==== Data evaluation ==== | ||
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{{Wikipedia|List of information graphics software}} | {{Wikipedia|List of information graphics software}} | ||
− | * {{App|Extrema| | + | * {{App|Extrema|Visualization and data analysis tool.|http://sourceforge.net/projects/extrema|{{AUR|extrema}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Fityk|Fityk]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Fityk|Fityk]]|Curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data.|http://fityk.nieto.pl/|{{AUR|fityk}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:gnuplot|Gnuplot]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:gnuplot|Gnuplot]]|Command-line program that can generate 2D and 3D plots of functions, data, and data fits. |http://www.gnuplot.info/|{{Pkg|gnuplot}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Grace (plotting tool)|Grace]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Grace (plotting tool)|Grace]]|WYSIWYG 2D graph plotting tool.|http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/|{{Pkg|grace}} {{AUR|qtgrace}} {{AUR|gracegtk}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:LabPlot|LabPlot]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:LabPlot|LabPlot]]|Free software data analysis and visualization application, similar to SciDAVis.|http://labplot.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|labplot2}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:QtiPlot|QtiPlot]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:QtiPlot|QtiPlot]]|Platform-independent application used for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis, similar to the proprietary [[Wikipedia: Origin (software)|Origin]] or [[Wikipedia:SigmaPlot|SigmaPlot]].|http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html|{{Pkg|qtiplot}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:ROOT|ROOT]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:ROOT|ROOT]]|Data analysis program and library (originally for particle physics) developed by CERN.|http://root.cern.ch/drupal/|{{AUR|root}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:SciDAVis|SciDAVis]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:SciDAVis|SciDAVis]]|Fork of QtiPlot with the goal of being better documented and more user friendly.|http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|scidavis}}}} |
− | See also [[ | + | See also [[List of Applications#Spreadsheets]] |
+ | |||
+ | === Chemistry and biology === | ||
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+ | ====Computational biology and bioinformatics==== | ||
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{{Wikipedia|List of open source bioinformatics software}} | {{Wikipedia|List of open source bioinformatics software}} | ||
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:BALL|BALL]] (Biochemical Algorithms Library)| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:BALL|BALL]] (Biochemical Algorithms Library)|Application framework in C++ that provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for molecular nechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.|http://www.ball-project.org/|{{AUR|ball}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:BioJava|BioJava]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:BioJava|BioJava]]|Set of Java tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.|http://biojava.org/wiki/Main_Page|{{AUR|biojava}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Biopython|Biopython]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Biopython|Biopython]]|Python package with tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.|http://biopython.org/wiki/Biopython|{{AUR|python-biopython}} {{AUR|python2-biopython}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:EMBOSS|EMBOSS]] (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:EMBOSS|EMBOSS]] (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)|Open source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology and bioinformatics user community.|http://emboss.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|emboss}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:MEGA, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis|MEGA]] (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis)| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:MEGA, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis|MEGA]] (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis)|Integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web-based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, inferring ancestral sequences, and testing evolutionary hypotheses.|http://www.megasoftware.net/|{{AUR|mega}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:MUMmer|MUMmer]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:MUMmer|MUMmer]]|Bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment based on suffix trees.|http://mummer.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|mummer}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:UGENE|UGENE]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:UGENE|UGENE]]|Application that integrates dozens of well-known biological tools and algorithms, providing both graphical user and command-line interfaces.|http://ugene.unipro.ru/|{{AUR|ugene}}}} |
+ | |||
+ | ==== Molecule viewer ==== | ||
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{{Wikipedia|List of molecular graphics systems}} | {{Wikipedia|List of molecular graphics systems}} | ||
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Avogadro_(software)|Avogadro]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Avogadro_(software)|Avogadro]]|Editor, viewer and simulator for 3D molecule structures (also supports downloading files from the [[Wikipedia:Protein Data Bank|Protein Data Bank]]).|http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/Main_Page|{{Pkg|avogadro}}}} |
− | * {{App|BALLView| | + | * {{App|BALLView|Standalone molecular modeling and visualization application, part of the [[Wikipedia:BALL|BALL]] framework.|http://www.ballview.org/|{{AUR|ball}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Ghemical|Ghemical]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Ghemical|Ghemical]]|Computational chemistry software package used to edit, view and simulate molecular structures.|http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/index.html|{{AUR|ghemical}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:PyMOL|PyMOL]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:PyMOL|PyMOL]]|Open-source molecular visualization system that can produce high quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins.|http://pymol.org|{{AUR|pymol}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:RasMol|RasMol]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:RasMol|RasMol]]|Computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures.|http://www.rasmol.org/|{{AUR|rasmol}}}} |
− | ==== Molecule | + | ==== Molecule drawing ==== |
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− | ==== Periodic | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:BKchem|BKChem]]|Practical and goodlooking skeletal formula molecule drawing program.|http://bkchem.zirael.org/|{{AUR|bkchem}}}} |
− | * {{App|gElemental| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Chemtool|Chemtool]]|GTK+-based program for drawing chemical structural formulas.|http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/chemtool.html|{{Pkg|chemtool}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Kalzium|Kalzium]]| | + | * {{App|EasyChem|Simple skeletal formula molecule drawing program with a focus on producing press-quality figures.|http://easychem.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR?|easychem}}}} |
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Gabedit|Gabedit]]|Graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like [[Wikipedia:GAMESS (US)|GAMESS]], [[Wikipedia:Gaussian (software)|Gaussian]], [[Wikipedia:MOLCAS|MOLCAS]], [[Wikipedia:MOLPRO|MOLPRO]], [[Wikipedia:MPQC|MPQC]], [[Wikipedia:MOPAC|OpenMopac]], [[Wikipedia:PC GAMESS|Firefly]] (previously PC GAMESS) and [[Wikipedia:Q-Chem|Q-Chem]].|http://gabedit.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|gabedit}}}} | ||
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:XDrawChem|XDrawChem]]|Extensive skeletal formula molecule drawing program (includes spectroscopy prediction).|http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/|{{AUR|xdrawchem}}}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Periodic table ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * {{App|gElemental|Periodic table of the elements with additional information.|http://freshmeat.net/projects/gelemental|{{AUR|gelemental}}}} | ||
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Kalzium|Kalzium]]|Periodic table of the elements with molecule editor and equation solver from the [[KDE]] desktop.|http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/|{{Pkg|kdeedu-kalzium}}}} | ||
==== Biochemistry ==== | ==== Biochemistry ==== | ||
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− | ==== Molecular | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Bioclipse|Bioclipse]]|Java-based visual platform for biochemestry that uses the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).|http://www.bioclipse.net/|{{AUR?|bioclipse}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:GROMACS|GROMACS]] (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations)| | + | |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Quantum ESPRESSO|Quantum ESPRESSO]]| | + | ==== Molecular modeling ==== |
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+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:GROMACS|GROMACS]] (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations)|Versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles.|http://www.gromacs.org|{{AUR|gromacs}}}} | ||
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Quantum ESPRESSO|Quantum ESPRESSO]]|Integrated suite of applications for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).|http://www.quantum-espresso.org/|{{AUR|quantum-espresso}}}} | ||
==== Image manipulation ==== | ==== Image manipulation ==== | ||
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:ImageJ|ImageJ]]| | + | |
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:ImageJ|ImageJ]]|Java-based image processing and analysing program that provides extensibility via plugins and macros. It is widely used in microscopy (e.g. for cell counting).|http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij|{{AUR|imagej}}}} | ||
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:FIJI_(software)|Fiji]]|ImageJ distribution (and soon ImageJ2) with a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure.|http://fiji.sc|{{AUR|fiji-binary}}}} | ||
=== Astronomy === | === Astronomy === | ||
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Celestia|Celestia]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Celestia|Celestia]]|3D astronomy simulation program that allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction and at any time in history.|http://www.shatters.net/celestia/|{{Pkg|celestia}}}} |
− | * {{App|GIMP Astronomy Plugins| | + | * {{App|GIMP Astronomy Plugins|Set of GIMP plugins for astronomical image processing.|http://hennigbuam.de/georg/gimp.html|{{AUR|gimp-plugin-astronomy}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KStars|KStars]]| | + | * {{App|GoQat|Camera acquisition software, especially for QSI cameras, that provides other features such as autoguiding, focusing help and others.|http://canburytech.net/GoQat/|{{AUR|goqat}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Cartes du Ciel|Skychart / Cartes | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KStars|KStars]]|Planetarium application that provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. It is included in KDE Edu.|http://edu.kde.org/kstars/|{{Pkg|kdeedu-kstars}}}} |
− | * {{App|StarPlot| | + | * {{App|Open PHD Guiding|Telescope autoguiding software based on the famous PHD Guiding.|http://code.google.com/p/open-phd-guiding/|{{AUR|open-phd-guiding-svn}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Stellarium (computer program)|Stellarium]]| | + | * {{App|Qastrocam-g2|Webcam acquisition software for planetary imaging.|http://sourceforge.net/projects/qastrocam-g2/|{{AUR|qastrocam-g2}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:XEphem|XEphem]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Cartes du Ciel|Skychart / Cartes du Ciel]]|Planetarium that maps out and labels most of the constellations, planets, and objects you can see with a telescope. It can also download Digitized Sky Survey Charts and superimpose images over these charts.|http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/start/|{{AUR|skychart}}}} |
+ | * {{App|StarPlot|3-dimensional star chart viewer.|http://starplot.org/|{{AUR|starplot}}}} | ||
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Stellarium (computer program)|Stellarium]]|Beautiful 3D planetarium that uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time.|http://www.stellarium.org/|{{Pkg|stellarium}}}} | ||
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:XEphem|XEphem]]|Motif-based ephemeris and planetarium program.|http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html|{{AUR|xephem}}}} | ||
=== Physics === | === Physics === | ||
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==== Electronics ==== | ==== Electronics ==== | ||
+ | |||
{{Wikipedia|Comparison of EDA software}} | {{Wikipedia|Comparison of EDA software}} | ||
− | * {{App|[[gEDA]]| | + | * {{App|[[gEDA]]|Full suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools that are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.|http://www.geda-project.org/|{{Pkg|geda-gaf}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KiCAD|KiCAD]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KiCAD|KiCAD]]|Software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) that facilitates the design of schematics for electronic circuits and their conversion to PCB (printed circuit board).|http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Suite|{{Pkg|kicad}}}} |
− | * {{App|KLogic| | + | * {{App|KLogic|Application used for easily building and simulating digital circuits.|http://www.a-rostin.de/|{{AUR|klogic}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KTechLab|KTechLab]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:KTechLab|KTechLab]]|IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation featuring an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and simulation of all common electronic components and logic elements.|http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktechlab/|{{Pkg|ktechlab}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Oregano (software)|Oregano]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Oregano (software)|Oregano]]|Graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is done by the [[Wikipedia:Ngspice|ngspice]] or [[Wikipedia:GNU Circuit Analysis Package|Gnucap]] engines.|https://github.com/marc-lorber/oregano|{{AUR|oregano}}}} |
− | * {{App|QElectroTech| | + | * {{App|QElectroTech|Application used to draw advanced electrical circuits.|http://qelectrotech.org/|{{AUR|qelectrotech}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Quite Universal Circuit Simulator|Qucs]]| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Quite Universal Circuit Simulator|Qucs]]|Electronics circuit simulator application that gives you the ability to set up a circuit with a graphical user interface and simulate its large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour.|http://qucs.sourceforge.net/|{{Pkg|qucs}}}} |
+ | |||
+ | ==== Physics simulation ==== | ||
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+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Code_Aster|Code_Aster]]|Software package for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and numeric simulation in structural mechanics.|http://www.code-aster.org|{{AUR|aster}}}} | ||
+ | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:Step (software)|Step]]|Two-dimensional physics simulation engine that is included in the KDE desktop as part of KDE Edu.|http://edu.kde.org/step/|{{Pkg|kdeedu-step}}}} | ||
− | ==== | + | ==== Unit conversion ==== |
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− | + | * {{App|ConvertAll|Unit conversion application that allows one to combine units in any way (e.g. inches per decade), even if it does not make sense.|http://convertall.bellz.org/|{{AUR|convertall}}}} | |
− | * {{App|ConvertAll| | + | * {{App|Gonvert|Conversion utility that allows conversion between many units like CGS, Ancient, Imperial with many categories like length, mass, numbers, etc.|http://www.unihedron.com/projects/gonvert/|{{AUR|gonvert}}}} |
− | * {{App|Gonvert| | + | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:GNU Units|Units]]|Command-line unit converter and calculator that can handle multiplicative scale changes, nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge and others.|http://www.gnu.org/s/units/|{{Pkg|units}}}} |
− | * {{App|[[Wikipedia:GNU Units|Units]]| |
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Contents
Science
Note: For possibly more up to date selection of scientific applications, try checking the AUR 'science' category
Scientific documents
Mathematics
Calculator
- bc — Arbitrary precision calculator language.
- calc — Arbitrary precision console calculator.
- Extcalc — Qt-based scientfic graphical calculator.
- GCalctool — Scientific calculator included in the GNOME desktop.
- KAlgebra — Calculator and 3D plotter included in KDE EDU.
- KCalc — Scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.
- Qalculate — Calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.
- SpeedCrunch — Fast, high precision and powerful cross-platform calculator.
- xcalc — Scientific calculator for X with algebraic and reverse polish notation modes.
Computer algebra system
- Fermat — Computer algebra system that does arithmetic of arbitrarily long integers and fractions, multivariate polynomials, symbolic calculations, matrices over polynomial rings, graphics, and other numerical calculations.
- GAP — Computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.
- Mathomatic — General purpose Computer Algebra System written in C.
- Maxima — Maple/Mathematica-like program with a wxWidgets based frontend.
- PARI/GP — Computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory.
- Xcas — User interface to Giac, a free, basic computer algebra system.
Scientific or technical computing
- EngLab — Cross-compile mathematical platform with a C like syntax.
- Euler — Numerical application designed for higher level math such as calculus, optimization, and statistics that uses Maxima for symbolic operations.
- FreeMat — Matlab-like program that supports many of its functions and features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and 3D visualization capabilities.
- PyLab — Collection of Python modules (pyplot, numpy, etc.) used for scientific calculations.
- Sage — Mathematics software system, that combines many existing open-source packages into a common Python interface. Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.
- Scilab — Matlab alternative used for numerical computations. Its syntax is not equivalent to that of Matlab, but it can be easily converted.
- http://www.scilab.org/ || scilabAUR
Statistics
- JAGS (Just another Gibbs sampler) — Cross-platform program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.
- PSPP — Free SPSS implementation.
- R — Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
- RKWard — Frontend for the statistical language R.
Data evaluation
- Extrema — Visualization and data analysis tool.
- Fityk — Curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data.
- http://fityk.nieto.pl/ || fitykAUR
- Gnuplot — Command-line program that can generate 2D and 3D plots of functions, data, and data fits.
- Grace — WYSIWYG 2D graph plotting tool.
- LabPlot — Free software data analysis and visualization application, similar to SciDAVis.
- QtiPlot — Platform-independent application used for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis, similar to the proprietary Origin or SigmaPlot.
- ROOT — Data analysis program and library (originally for particle physics) developed by CERN.
- SciDAVis — Fork of QtiPlot with the goal of being better documented and more user friendly.
See also List of Applications#Spreadsheets
Chemistry and biology
Computational biology and bioinformatics
- BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) — Application framework in C++ that provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for molecular nechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.
- BioJava — Set of Java tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.
- Biopython — Python package with tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.
- EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) — Open source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology and bioinformatics user community.
- MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) — Integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web-based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, inferring ancestral sequences, and testing evolutionary hypotheses.
- MUMmer — Bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment based on suffix trees.
- UGENE — Application that integrates dozens of well-known biological tools and algorithms, providing both graphical user and command-line interfaces.
- http://ugene.unipro.ru/ || ugeneAUR
Molecule viewer
- Avogadro — Editor, viewer and simulator for 3D molecule structures (also supports downloading files from the Protein Data Bank).
- BALLView — Standalone molecular modeling and visualization application, part of the BALL framework.
- http://www.ballview.org/ || ballAUR
- Ghemical — Computational chemistry software package used to edit, view and simulate molecular structures.
- PyMOL — Open-source molecular visualization system that can produce high quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins.
- http://pymol.org || pymolAUR
- RasMol — Computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures.
- http://www.rasmol.org/ || rasmolAUR
Molecule drawing
- BKChem — Practical and goodlooking skeletal formula molecule drawing program.
- Chemtool — GTK+-based program for drawing chemical structural formulas.
- EasyChem — Simple skeletal formula molecule drawing program with a focus on producing press-quality figures.
- http://easychem.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Gabedit — Graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like GAMESS, Gaussian, MOLCAS, MOLPRO, MPQC, OpenMopac, Firefly (previously PC GAMESS) and Q-Chem.
- XDrawChem — Extensive skeletal formula molecule drawing program (includes spectroscopy prediction).
Periodic table
- gElemental — Periodic table of the elements with additional information.
- Kalzium — Periodic table of the elements with molecule editor and equation solver from the KDE desktop.
Biochemistry
- Bioclipse — Java-based visual platform for biochemestry that uses the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).
- http://www.bioclipse.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
Molecular modeling
- GROMACS (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations) — Versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles.
- Quantum ESPRESSO — Integrated suite of applications for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).
Image manipulation
- ImageJ — Java-based image processing and analysing program that provides extensibility via plugins and macros. It is widely used in microscopy (e.g. for cell counting).
- Fiji — ImageJ distribution (and soon ImageJ2) with a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure.
- http://fiji.sc || fiji-binaryAUR
Astronomy
- Celestia — 3D astronomy simulation program that allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction and at any time in history.
- GIMP Astronomy Plugins — Set of GIMP plugins for astronomical image processing.
- GoQat — Camera acquisition software, especially for QSI cameras, that provides other features such as autoguiding, focusing help and others.
- KStars — Planetarium application that provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. It is included in KDE Edu.
- Open PHD Guiding — Telescope autoguiding software based on the famous PHD Guiding.
- Qastrocam-g2 — Webcam acquisition software for planetary imaging.
- Skychart / Cartes du Ciel — Planetarium that maps out and labels most of the constellations, planets, and objects you can see with a telescope. It can also download Digitized Sky Survey Charts and superimpose images over these charts.
- StarPlot — 3-dimensional star chart viewer.
- http://starplot.org/ || starplotAUR
- Stellarium — Beautiful 3D planetarium that uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time.
- XEphem — Motif-based ephemeris and planetarium program.
Physics
Electronics
- gEDA — Full suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools that are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.
- KiCAD — Software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) that facilitates the design of schematics for electronic circuits and their conversion to PCB (printed circuit board).
- KLogic — Application used for easily building and simulating digital circuits.
- KTechLab — IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation featuring an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and simulation of all common electronic components and logic elements.
- Oregano — Graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is done by the ngspice or Gnucap engines.
- QElectroTech — Application used to draw advanced electrical circuits.
- Qucs — Electronics circuit simulator application that gives you the ability to set up a circuit with a graphical user interface and simulate its large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour.
Physics simulation
- Code_Aster — Software package for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and numeric simulation in structural mechanics.
- Step — Two-dimensional physics simulation engine that is included in the KDE desktop as part of KDE Edu.
Unit conversion
- ConvertAll — Unit conversion application that allows one to combine units in any way (e.g. inches per decade), even if it does not make sense.
- Gonvert — Conversion utility that allows conversion between many units like CGS, Ancient, Imperial with many categories like length, mass, numbers, etc.
- Units — Command-line unit converter and calculator that can handle multiplicative scale changes, nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge and others.