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The CP2K project homepage

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

CP2K is a freely available (GPL) program, written in Fortran 95, to perform atomistic and molecular simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular and biological systems. It provides a general framework for different methods such as e.g. density functional theory (DFT) … Continue reading →

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ASCEND modelling environment

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

ASCEND is a flexible modelling environment for solving hard engineering and science problems. It offers: an object-oriented model description language for describing your system, an interactive user interface that allows you to solve your model and explore the effect of … Continue reading →

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PhyloSort

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

A Java tool to sort phylogenetic trees by searching for user-specified subtrees that contain a monophyletic group of interest defined by operational taxonomic units. Find PhyloSort at: http://phylosort.sourceforge.net

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Avogadro

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers a flexible rendering engine and a powerful plugin architecture. Find Avogadro at: http://avogadro.cc/wiki/Main_Page

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PostGIS

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI’s SDE or Oracle’s … Continue reading →

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Quantum GIS (QGIS)

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets … Continue reading →

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Elmer

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

Elmer is an Open Source Finite Element Software for Multiphysical Problems. Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite … Continue reading →

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SAGE

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

SAGE is free open source math software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, and related areas. Both the SAGE development model and the technology in SAGE itself is distinguished by an extremely strong … Continue reading →

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New Software Links

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

Some cool new user-submitted software links today: SAGE is math software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, and related areas. It looks very useful. CAE Linux is an entire Linux distribution designed specifically … Continue reading →

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EquPlus

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Dan Gezelter

EquPlus looks like a pretty neat resource. They have a large library of equations from many mathematically-related fields. Each equation can be cut-and-pasted into your documents in LaTeX, MathType, or MathML code. There are also Constants, SI Units, Symbols, and … Continue reading →

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