Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

PhD Comics tackles Open Access

Fantastic comic / video by Jorge Cham on Open Access over at PhD Comics: www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1533 The voices behind the video are Jonathan Eisen and Nick Shockey (director of the Right to Research Coalition), and the discussion covers the insanity of … Continue reading

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Open source fonts

Adobe released an open source font today called Source Sans Pro.   It looks super clean and nearly perfect for user interfaces.  Right now it comes in six weights, but a monowidth version is coming soon.  (I’m most excited about … Continue reading

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Data visualization and Digital Research tools

Two new collections of tools that may be of interest to the OpenScience community.  Not everything on these lists is Open Source, but many of the visualization and research tools look to be very useful.   Hat tip to Eric … Continue reading

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pyofss – Python-based optical fibre system simulator

Pyofss allows optical component modules to be grouped together into a system. An optical field is propagated through the system and the evolution of the field viewed at each module. Fibre effects include attenuation, dispersion, self-phase modulation, self-steepening, and Raman … Continue reading

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QuTiP: Quantum Toolbox in Python

QuTiP is open-source software for simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems. The QuTiP library depends on the excellent Numpy and Scipy numerical packages. In addition, graphical output is provided by Matplotlib. QuTiP aims to provide user-friendly and efficient numerical … Continue reading

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Molekel

Molekel is an open-source multi-platform molecular visualization program. Find Molekel at: http://molekel.cscs.ch/wiki/pmwiki.php

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cuteNMR

NMR processing software using the Qt framework. Currently only 1D. Find cuteNMR at: http://cutenmr.sourceforge.net/

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rNMR

rNMR is an open source software package for visualizing and interpreting one and two dimensional NMR data. In contrast to most existing 2D NMR software, rNMR is specifically designed for high-throughput assignment and quantification of small molecules. As a result, … Continue reading

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XDAT: A Tool to plot Parallel Coordinates

XDAT (x-dimensional data analysis tool) reads column-based data in text / csv format and plots it using parallel coordinates. It is written in Java and released under the GPL. Find XDAT: A Tool to plot Parallel Coordinates at: http://www.xdat.org/

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Computational Chemistry Highlights

Computational Chemistry Highlights (CCH) is an interesting new overlay journal that identifies important contributions to the field of computational and theoretical chemistry published within the last 1-2 years.  I’m involved in this particular overlay journal – I’ll be concentrating on recent developments … Continue reading

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