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VLinux

VLinux is a Linux Live CD for Bioinformatics. It contains various sequence and structure analysis tools. The following packages are included in the present VLinux distribution. EMBOSS,GDE,Rasmol,PyMOL,GROMACS,Phylip,Arka/Genpak,ClustalW/ClustalX,TCoffee, Seaview,Garlic, Ramachandran Plot viewer, Primer, XMolCalc, NJPlot etc Find VLinux at: http://bioinformatics.org/vlinux

V_Sim and ImageJ

We’ve got two new user-contributed software links today. ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program which can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images that looks like it might be really useful when … Continue reading →

V_Sim

V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries, etc. V_Sim can use information from files in binary d3 format, in ascii, or in "xyz" format. Find V_Sim at: http://www-drfmc.cea.fr/sp2m/L_Sim/V_Sim/index.en.html

ImageJ

ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.1 or later virtual machine. Downloadable … Continue reading →

Molecular Modeling

Over at In the Pipeline, Derek has posted a great statement about The Hazards of Molecular Modeling: I’ve made this point before, but it needs to be made again: molecular modeling is not reality. Most models are not that good, … Continue reading →

Kstars, Qmol, PrestoPlot

A new link today in our astronomy section. KStars is the desktop planetarium for KDE. Also, thanks to Jason Gans, we’ve fixed two links to software from the Shalloway group at Cornell. Qmol is a nice-looking program for viewing molecular … Continue reading →

KStars

The Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and … Continue reading →

Codase: Another source code search site

A while back, we mentioned a new open source search site called Koders. A comment to that post describes a new site called Codase which also searches across many open source projects. Here’s a sample search for the word “fourier”. … Continue reading →

Stellarium

Today we have a new user-suggested link to Stellarium, an open source desktop planetarium that uses OpenGL to render realistic views of the stars. This looks like a wonderful new program to join our Astronomy section. Check it out! [tags]software, … Continue reading →

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