Oss projects by domain
This page contains information on open source projects in different scientific/technology disciplines.
Instructions
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
- A testimonial should be a brief statement of how using/contributing to an OSS project in your discipline improved your work/career!
- 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.
Common Departments
- Astronomy
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Biochemistry
- Chemistry
- Recommended
- OpenBabel - allows anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Recommended
- Economics
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Geosciences
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Mathematics
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources
- Neuroscience
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Physics
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Political science
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources
- Psychology
- Recommended:
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Statistics
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
Less Common Departments
- Aeronautics and astronautics
- Recommended
- SunPy, a solar physics library actively maintained by NASA GSFC.
- Other
- MakerPlane, a project for building personal planes (article)
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Portland State (open source) Aerospace Society: http://psas.pdx.edu/
- NASA Open Source list at code.nasa.gov
- Recommended
- Atmospheric sciences
- Recommended
- Other
- OpenMadrigal - a database for accessing/archiving geospace data (does geospace == atmospheric science?)
- Testimonials
- Resources
- MIT's Haystack has some open projects
- OpenRadar has radio-related oss projects
- UCAR list
- Linguistics
- Recommended
- 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
- Materials science
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources
- Nuclear Engineering
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources