What’s your favorite plotting program?

Join us over in the Forums to discuss Plots and Graphs. What do you use for day-to-day plotting of your data? What do you use for presentation-quality plots? What are your other essential tools for doing science?

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Link Ratings

We’ve got link ratings enabled. If you click on a link from the OpenScience site and return to our page, you’ll be asked to rate the site you’ve just visited on a 1 to 5 scale. This should help us figure out exactly which bits of scientific software are used and liked by everyone in the community.

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RDF / XML feed

See that button over there on the right hand side? You can now add OpenScience to your daily RSS reader and get instant updates on the latest cool software we’re featuring.

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New entries in Bioinformatics

Today we are starting to look at bioinformatics software, most of which is collected at a very nice site, bioinformatics.org. The new entries for today are: AnnHyb, Alkahest, ALiBio, and ABE, all of which are nascent bioinformatics suites. Take a look!

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AnnHyb

AnnHyb is a tool for working with and managing nucleotide sequences in multiple formats. The features includes format conversion, sequence viewer, sequence editor, oligonucleotides alignment, restriction analysis, pattern searching, retrieval from servers, multi-alignment viewer, consensus determination…
Find AnnHyb at: http://bioinformatics.org/annhyb/

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The Alkahest Initiative

Alkahest is an initiative to produce free open source software systems for high-throughput DNA sequence data management and analysis. The goal is to produce a comprehensive package for data management and bioinformatics research which is composed of separable but interoperable modules which may be distributed among a number of computers. The software principly resides under Linux/UNIX, but its primary interface is a web application accessible through a browser on any platform.
Find The Alkahest Initiative at: http://www.bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=209

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ALiBio: Algorithms Library for Bioinformatics

The goal of ALiBio is the give libraries and efficient fundamental algorithm to be used when developing applications in the bioinformatics field.
Find ALiBio: Algorithms Library for Bioinformatics at: http://bioinformatics.org/ALiBio/

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ABE

ABE is a small, fast and convenient program for visualizing and modeling experimental bioassay data. The data can be modeled using either polynomials or a more specific four-parameter model based upon the standard, sigmoidal dose-response curve.
Find ABE at: http://bioinformatics.org/abe/

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Forums and Comments

Thanks to a generous donation from Ed Richley for some undergraduate support we have been able to add two new features to the OpenScience site. We’re allowing users to comment on our news items as they are posted, and we have a new Forums page which will let the community have more in-depth discussions about the scientific software they use and develop as well as some of the larger issues (copyright, grant funding agencies, etc.)

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Monday is Molecular Dynamics Day!

Today we’ve added two new entries to our Molecular Dynamics section. The Molecular Workbench looks like a great interactive teaching tool for exploring material and molecular properties. We’re also proud to include OOPSE which is the object-oriented parallel simulation engine. (OOPSE is the primary research code for the director of the OpenScience project.)

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