Oss projects by domain

Please add information and testimonials wherever you see fit. If a discipline is missing, please add it.

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!
    • Make sure to include a URL to project website, and if possible a brief description of the software.
  • 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.

For additional projects, you can look through the Wikipedia page on free science software.

Common Departments

• Astronomy
  • Recommended
    • Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS)
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • Wikipedia Article

• Biology
  • Recommended
    • BioPython
    • BioPerl
    • ImageJ
    • R
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources

• Chemistry
  • Recommended
    • OpenBabel
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • Wikipedia article

• Economics
  • Recommended
    • R
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:

• Geosciences
  • Recommended
    • GeoForge
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • Wikipedia article

• Linguistics
  • Recommended
    • Python Natural Language Toolkit
  • Other
    • Joshua Machine Translation Toolkit
    • Kura, a multi-user open source linguistic database
    • Apertium open source machine translation
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • LINGUIST email discussion list and software index
    • List of open source statistical NLP tools
    • Sourceforge.net list of language-related software

• Mathematics
  • Recommended
    • Sage Math
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources
    • Wikipedia article

• Neuroscience
  • Recommended
    • R
    • NeuroDebian
  • Other
    • Backyard Brains
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • List of tools
    • another list of tools

• Physics
  • Recommended
    • R
    • Octave
    • Sage Math
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • Wikipedia Article

• Psychology
  • Recommended:
    • PsychoPy
    • R
    • Octave
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • List of tools

• Statistics
  • Recommended
    • R
    • NumPy
    • SciPy
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources:
    • Wikipedia article

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/

• Atmospheric sciences
  • Recommended
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources

• Materials science
  • Recommended
  • Other
  • Testimonials
  • Resources
    • 2008 discussion of open source in materials science