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cb2bib – From clipboard to BibTeX: A tool for extracting bibliographic references

From clipboard to BibTeX: A tool for rapidly extracting unformatted bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages, and PDF files. The cb2Bib facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and non standard sources. Output references are written in … Continue reading

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NCAR Graphics

NCAR Graphics is a Fortran and C based software package for scientific visualization Find NCAR Graphics at: http://ngwww.ucar.edu/

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g3data

g3data is used for extracting data from graphs. In publications graphs often are included, but the actual data is missing. g3data makes the extracting process much easier. Find g3data at: http://www.frantz.fi/software/g3data.php

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ImageJ

ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. Downloadable … Continue reading

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Cassandra

Cassandra is a open source data viewer based on VTK. Cassandra provides a dynamic interaction with the VTK pipeline and enables to load plugins dynamically in order to perform specific tasks in data manipulation and visualisation. Find Cassandra at: http://dev.artenum.com/projects/cassandra

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QtiPlot

From the website:"As a scientist I often need to use data analysis and plotting software. One of the best scientific software I’ve ever seen is Gnuplot. It has the advantage of being free, but every one who has ever used … Continue reading

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LabPlot

Data analysis and visualisation. A new KDE-based graphing / plotting package that looks very powerful. Find LabPlot at: http://labplot.sourceforge.net/

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Mersenne Twister

A very fast random number generator with a period of 2^19937-1 Find Mersenne Twister at: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html

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SPRNG

The Scalable Parallel Random Number Generators Library (SPRNG) Find SPRNG at: http://sprng.cs.fsu.edu/

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Quantities

Quantities is a software package which allows the use of quantities which have dimensionality and have units attached within C++ programs in a way similar to the use of the built-in types float or double. It is thus an implementation … Continue reading

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