Open Science Projects and Organizations

Please feel free to add organizations and projects to this list. If an org or project can be listed under multiple headings, please pick one heading for the main entry, and add a link to that entry under the other headings.

Required fields for an entry are name and link to website (or other long-lasting web presence). Optional but encouraged fields include: short description, social media links, contact info, related tags.

=Open Science Conferences, Meetups, and other Community Events=

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=Open Source Scientific Software Projects=

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=Open Science Projects with an Educational or Instructional Focus=

Cross-discipline

 * ImageJ
 * R - a programming language for statistical analysis
 * NumPy
 * SciPy
 * Julia
 * Octave

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Aeronautics and astronautics

 * SunPy, a solar physics library actively maintained by NASA GSFC.
 * MakerPlane, a project for building personal planes (article)

Atmospheric sciences

 * CMAQ - EPA's development project: a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations
 * GEMPAK - soon to be replaced with AWIPS II - a weather forecasting, display and analysis package, lead developer: National Weather Service
 * OpenMadrigal - a database for accessing/archiving geospace data (does geospace == atmospheric science?)

Astronomy

 * Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS)

Biochemistry

 * BioPython - a set of tools for biological computation written in Python
 * BioPerl
 * OpenBabel - allows anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas

Biomedical Engingeering

 * BioSig - an open source software library for biomedical signal processing of biosignals such as EEG, ECoG, ECG, EOG and EMG
 * OpenSim - tool for modeling and simulation of movement

Geosciences

 * GeoForge

Linguistics

 * Python Natural Language Toolkit
 * Joshua Machine Translation Toolkit
 * Kura, a multi-user open source linguistic database
 * Apertium open source machine translation
 * Praat open source tool used to annotate speech / phonetics
 * TextBlob Natural Language Processing tool
 * DISSECT Distributional Semantics toolkit

Materials Science

 * ESPRESSO - a software package for performing and analyzing simulations of “coarse-grained” models as used in soft-matter research

Mathematics

 * Sage Math - a popular software system combining many projects into a common Python-based interface
 * GAP - a system for computational discrete algebra
 * CoCoA - a system for computations in commutative algebra

Neuroscience

 * NeuroDebian
 * SPM - software for doing statistical parametric mapping analysis
 * Octave
 * Backyard Brains
 * PsychoPy - a set of tools for doing stimulus presentation and capturing behavioral data

Nuclear Engineering

 * LAMMPS - a molecular dynamics library that can be used to model parallel atomic/subatomic processes at large scale, lead by Sandia National Laboratories
 * OpenGeiger - an open source, open hardware Geiger Counter

=Open Science Journalism and/or Information-sharing Projects=

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=Citizen Science, Participatory Research, Crowdsourced Research=

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=Open Scientific Data Sources & Resources=

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