Oss projects by domain
Please format disciplines in the following way:
- Name of Discipline
- Recommended
- OSS that is commonly used within the discipline, that an undergraduate reasonably might know about.
- There can be multiple projects!
- Other
- This are projects that are less well known or highly specific, but still active and interesting.
- There can be multiple projects
- Testimonials
- Feel free to include your name & bibliographical info/url, if you want, or leave it anonymous
- Resources
- Links to places to find more info.
- Recommended
For additional projects, you can look through the Wikipedia page on free science software.
Most Common Departments
- Astronomy
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
Less Common Departments
- Aeronautics and astronautics
- Recommended
- SunPy, a solar physics library actively maintained by NASA GSFC.
- Other
- NASA Open Source list at code.nasa.gov
- Open source airplane: Makerplane, article, project
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Portland State (open source) Aerospace Society: http://psas.pdx.edu/
- Recommended
- Atmospheric sciences
- Recommended:
- Other:
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Recommended: OpenBabel
- Other: Wikipedia article
- Economics
- Recommended: R
- Geosciences
- Recommended: GeoForge
- Other Wikipedia article
- Linguistics
- Recommended: Python Natural Language Toolkit
- Other: Joshua Machine Translation Toolkit, List of open source statistical NLP tools, Kura, a multi-user open source linguistic database; Sourceforge.net list of language-related software, Apertium open source machine translation; LINGUIST email discussion list and software index
- Mathematics
- Recommended: Sage Math
- Other: Wikipedia article
- Materials science
- Neuroscience
- Recommended: R, NeuroDebian, Backyard Brains
- Other: List of tools, another list of tools
- Physics
- Recommended: R, Octave,Sage Math
- Other: Wikipedia Article, list of Astronomy-related packages
- Psychology
- Recommended: PsychoPy, R, Octave
- Other: List of tools
- Statistics
- Recommended: R, NumPy, SciPy
- Other: Wikipedia article