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Skychart

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

SkyChart is software to draw a map of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs. It shows the position of the planets, simulates an eclipse, and shows artificial satellites. It can also … Continue reading →

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CO-ADC, XMD, ChemiCool

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

We’re highlighting three new software submissions today: CO-ADC calculates band structures of semiconducting and insulating crystals. Electron correlations are accounted for using the crystal orbital algebraic diagrammatic construction (CO-ADC) scheme. The software comprises an independent band Lanczos code for real- … Continue reading →

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Chemicool Periodic Table

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Chemistry periodic table (periodic chart) of the elements. Information about hydrogen, oxygen, silver, carbon, aluminum…plus forum, dictionary and tools. Find Chemicool Periodic Table at: http://www.chemicool.com/

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Software Carpentry Course

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Greg Wilson pointed me to a new version of the Sofware Carpentry course at (www.swc.scipy.org); it’s all open source, and they’re actively looking for corrections and contributions. Reading through the online course materials, I can say that it is a … Continue reading →

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XMD

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

XMD is a GPL’ed Molecular Dynamics program written in C. It supports the following potentials: pair, EAM, Tersoff and Stillinger-Weber, and implements a large variety of commands to help simplify simulation. Find XMD at: http://xmd.sf.net

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Crystal orbital algebraic diagrammatic construction

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

The CO-ADC program suite has been designed to calculate band structures of semiconducting and insulating crystals. Thereby, the electron correlations are accounted for on ab initio level using the crystal orbital algebraic diagrammatic construction (CO-ADC) scheme. The software comprises an … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns for Scientific Software

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

I’ve been reading a really interesting paper out of a group that’s just across campus from me. The paper is called Design Patterns for Generic Object-Oriented Scientific Software and it comes out of the Izaguirre Group. Design patterns have a … Continue reading →

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New Software links

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

We’ve got two new links today in the software section. iBabel is a Mac front-end to a bunch of cheminformatics tools (i.e. Babel, Jmol, JChemPaint, SMARTS-based substructure searching, etc.). It can be found in our Molecule Viewers and Editors section. … Continue reading →

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Re-purposing Open Source projects for Science

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

I’ve been having discussions with my colleague, Alex Kandel, about a software tool he’s been working on. He has 20,000 or so STM images that his group has taken over the past five years, and he is building a web … Continue reading →

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catool

Posted on July 8, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

catool is a cross-platform GPL tool for the analysis of internal combustion engine pressure data. It calculates parameters such as IMEP, MFB, Pmax, Knock pressure and calculates cycle statistics. Data can be imported in CSV or AVL IFile format and … Continue reading →

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