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Ubuntu Scientists

Science on Linux

The aim of this page is to become a useful resource for scientist and science students using Ubuntu (or any other) Linux. Please add information or comments.

Introduction

Linux is a great operating system for scientists, for many reasons:

  • It is stable, secure and runs on all sorts of hardware, from embedded systems to supercomputers.

  • It is possible to create a highly customised setup to do what you want.

  • Repetitive tasks can be automated.

  • There are lots of useful free scientific programs and tools.

Although some people say that linux is not user friendly enough for the desktop yet, scientists are usually a bit more familier with computers, and don't mind learning how to do things.

Applications

Some applications that scientists use in Linux. Please add some more.

See also: SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux) is a collection of information and links to software that will be of interest to scientists and engineers. The broad coverage of Linux applications will also benefit the whole Linux/Unix community. There are currently 3,017 entries in SAL. [WWW] http://sal.iatp.by/

Physics

  • Cernlib - A suite of data analysis tools and libraries created for use in physics experiments, but also with applications to other fields such as the chemical and biological sciences. [WWW] Cernlib

  • JaxoDraw - A Java program for drawing Feynman diagrams [WWW] JaxoDraw

  • ROOT - An Object Oriented Data Analysis Framework [WWW] ROOT

  • Geant4 - A toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter [WWW] Geant4

  • CLHEP - A Class Library for High Energy Physics [WWW] CLHEP

  • Pluto++ - A Monte Carlo simulation tool for hadronic physics [WWW] Pluto++

  • Data files from the Particle Data Group [WWW] http://pdg.lbl.gov/2005/html/computer_read.html

Chemistry

  • GChemPaint - A 2D chemical structures editor [WWW] GChemPaint

  • ghemical - A molecular modeling and computational chemistry package that provides molecular mechanics, semi-empirical (via MOPAC7), and ab initio (via MPQC) calculations [WWW] ghemical

  • gdis - A molecular display program that supports OpenGL and POVRay rendering. [WWW] gdis

  • OpenBabel - A chemical file format conversion program. [WWW] OpenBabel

  • Chemtool and Xdrawchem - 2D molecule drawing programs similar to ChemDraw. [WWW] Chemtool and [WWW] xdrawchem

  • mpqc - The Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry Program. Ab initio quantum chemical computational package. [WWW] mpqc

  • [WWW] Linux4Chemistry - list of linux applications which may be useful for chemists

Biology

Mathematics

  • Octave - GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. (Similar to MATLAB). [WWW] Octave

  • SciCraft - Addon to Octave, clones Simulink. Still in developement, blocks have to be written by the user. It is supposed to specialize in bioinformatics functions [WWW] SciCraft

  • Scilab - Another MATLAB-like software. [WWW] Scilab

  • SciCos - A free Simulink-like addon to Scilab [WWW] SciCos

  • Maxima - A computer algebra system (xmaxima is its X interface)

  • GNU MP - GNU Multiprecision arthmetic library. Useful if you need to use very big numbers in a C program. [WWW] GMP

  • GSL - the Gnu Scientific Library [WWW] GSL

  • R - for statistical computing and graphics. [WWW] R

  • OOStatistics - A statistics macro for openoffice calc. [WWW] OOStatistics

  • freefem - A PDE oriented language using Finite Element Method - 2D and 3D versions. [WWW] freefem

  • SciPy - An open source library of scientific tools for Python. [WWW] SciPy

  • F2PY - Fortran to Python interface generator provides a connection between Python and Fortran languages. [WWW] F2PY

Astronomy

Electronics

  • Eagle - A printed circuit board design tool. [WWW] Eagle

  • oregano - Schematic capture, netlists, and spice for simulations. [WWW] oregano

  • gEDA - GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools. [WWW] gEDA

  • Qucs - An integrated circuit simulator [WWW] Qucs

Computer Science

Geography

  • UbuntuGIS Geographical Information System

  • ncview - A very fast program for viewing netCDF files (a standard widely used in meteorology, climate and oceanography) [WWW] ncview

  • Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) - a mapping program that can also be used to make pretty graphs. [WWW] GMT

Distributed Computing

  • openmosix - Turns a network of ordinary computers into a supercomputer. [WWW] openmosix

  • boinc - A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources [WWW] boinc

    • projects include Climateprediction.net,Einstein@home,LHC@home,Predictor@home,SETI@home

Tools

  • Xfig - A diagram and figure creation tool. Can import GIF, JPEG, and EPS figures and can export to Postscipt, LaTeX, and bitmap files. [WWW] Xfig

  • Dia - A "Visio" like diagram tool. Especially useful for simple circuits and flowcharts. [WWW] Dia

  • BIKA - A laboratory information management system (LIMS) built on top of Zope and Plone, and coded in Python [WWW] BIKA

Plotting Tools
  • GNUPlot - A command-line driven 2D/3D plotting tool. Can perform data fitting and exports to PNG, PS, Xfig, and Latex formats. Has python bindings (python-gnuplot) for including in other programs or scripts. [WWW] gnuplot

  • grace - A 2D WYSIWYG plotting tool that exports to JPEG, PNG, EPS, PDF, and SVG. Also does curve fitting. [WWW] grace

  • PGPLOT - Fortran- or C-callable graphics subrutine package for making scientific graphs. [WWW] PGPLOT

  • SciGraphica - A scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics. Attempts to be a [WWW] "Microcal Origin" clone [WWW] SciGraphica

  • Qtiplot - A 2D/3D, Qt based plotting tool that attempts to be another "Origin" clone [WWW] Qtiplot

  • LabPlot - Another Qt based 2D/3D GUI plotting tool that also does curve fitting, supports many data formats, LaTeX labeling, GSL functions, and statistics. [WWW] LabPlot

  • Veusz - A scientific plotting package written in Python. [WWW] veusz.

  • Gri - A scientific graphics language. [WWW] Gri

Word Processing Tools
  • LaTeX - WYGIWYW (What You Get Is What You Want) text mark up system. What real scientist write papers with. [WWW] LaTeX

  • Lyx - A WYSIWYG LaTeX frontend. [WWW] Lyx

  • Kile - A LaTeX-frontend for KDE, with support for syntax highlighting and convenient palettes for all standard mathematical symbols and text formatting. It also provides easy access to forward and inverse search facilities. [WWW] Kile

  • eqe - Allows you write equations in Latex and drag and drop them into other apps [WWW] eqe

  • Conglomerate - An XML editor, to create DocBook or similar formats. [WWW] Conglomerate

  • Jabref - A graphical bibtex bibliography manager which can be used in conjunction with lyx. It is java based. [WWW] Jabref

  • Texmaker - Like Kile but loads faster ;-) [WWW] Texmaker

  • TeXmacs - A wysiwyg scientific text editor [WWW] TeXmacs

    • doubles as an interface for computer algebra systems like [Maxima], maple, mupad, axiom, giac, GTybalt, Macaulay 2, pari, yacas

    • can also be used as a front end for [R], Octave, [GNUplot], [Xfig], [Dr. Geo], [Eukleides],[Qcl]

  • preview-latex - (almost) turns emacs into a WYSIWYG-LaTeX-frontend [WWW] preview-latex

  • [WWW] latex2html , [WWW] tth and [WWW] hevea for converting LaTeX to html.

  • gaim-latex - A small gaim (see GaimHowto) plugin which allow you to insert LaTeX formulae into im conversations. [WWW] gaim-latex

Ubuntu Packages

Science Section
Mathematics Section
TeX Section

Alternatives to Proprietry Scientific Software

hopefully this list will get long enough to deserve its own page.

Proprietary

Free alternative

Info

Link

Matlab

Octave

Matrix based computing environment

[WWW] Octave

Matlab

Scilab

see above

[WWW] Scilab

Simulink

SciCraft

Based on Octave (Available for Debian, I think)

[WWW] SciCraft

Simulink

SciCos

Based on Scilab (Not found in Ubuntu Repos)

[WWW] SciCos

Origin

SciGraphica & Qtiplot

Data plotting and analysis

[WWW] SciGraphica & [WWW] Qtiplot

Hardware

Data acquisition

Computer controlled systems

  • RTAI - Real-Time Application Interface is a hard real-time extension to the Linux kernel [WWW] http://www.rtai.org/

Other information

Other Linux Distributions for Scientists

  • [WWW] Quantian A Knoppix / Debian variant tailored to numerical and quantitative analysis.

  • [WWW] Debian-Med Debian-Med is a "Custom Debian Distribution" for medical practice and research.

    • debian-med metapackages are in Ubuntu(Universe): to list them type:  apt-cache search debian-med 

  • [WWW] Scientific Linux Linux release put together by Fermilab and CERN based on RH

  • [WWW] Madrake4Chemistry is about using Madrake Linux for chemistry

Unofficial Ubuntu/Debian repositories with science software

Mailing Lists about Linux and Science

Related Wiki Pages

UbuntuSciencePackages is a list of packages that are in the official Ubuntu Repositories that scientist use

UbuntuScienceMetaPackages discusses possible science metapackages

Forum Threads

Links

Books

(2005-09-26 06:17:30由KevinGoldstein编辑)

posted on 2005-09-26 15:34 ivaneeo 阅读(2348) 评论(1)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: debian-企鹅中最像牛

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