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Author Archives: Dan Gezelter
Selling Science
Although the idea of government agencies making direct pitches to the public makes me squeamish, there are times when I think we should let them talk about their work in a clear and compelling way to the people who funded … Continue reading
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Science Blogs
There’s an interesting article about Scientists who blog over at The Scientist. I know that the fear of being scooped keeps a lot of professional scientists from showing their cards to their peers before a manuscript is accepted or in … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Science
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Intelligent Design isn’t.
Yoikes. The President says that ‘Intelligent Design’ Should Be Taught. I find it disturbing to hear someone elected to a national political office actually voicing support for ID. Here are some other ‘different schools of thought’ he could also suggest … Continue reading
PGOPHER
PGOPHER is a general purpose program for simulating and fitting rotational spectra. PGOPHER will handle linear molecules and symmetric and asymmetric tops, including effects due to unpaired electrons and nuclear spin. The program can handle many sorts of transitions, including … 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
Posted in 3D Plotting
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New Software links!
Now that the site redesign is nearly complete, we’ve got a backlog of user-submitted software links: EASY! is a fortran code for constrained or unconstrained optimization (added to our Optimization section). OpenFlower is a C++ CFD code which can handle … Continue reading
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Where did SAL go?
Back before we opened up shop at openscience.org, we used to browse the Scientific Applications for Linux (SAL) site at Kachinatech. It had some interesting links to programs we didn’t know much about. The old SAL mirrors are still around, … Continue reading
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Koders
We just discovered this amazing new site, koders.com which lets you search a huge volume of open source software (and not just the scientific software). To demonstrate how useful it is, here’s a sample search for GPL’d software with the … Continue reading
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Changes have been made
We’ve switched to entirely new software to run some of the OpenScience site. The blog is now being handled by WordPress and the forums have been switched to PunBB. We’re trying to combat some of the annoying spam, and to … Continue reading
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GENtle
GENtle is a software for DNA and amino acid editing, database management, plasmid maps, restriction and ligation, alignments, sequencer data import, calculators, gel image display, PCR, and more. Find GENtle at: http://gentle.magnusmanske.de
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