From Fedora Project Wiki
List of scientific/engineering packages
Mathematics
| <tablewidth="95%"#8080FF> Package Name | <#8080FF> Description | <#8080FF> Link |
| kpolynome | KPolynome is a program to calculate mathematical polynomes based on given data coordinates. | |
| R | R is a software environment for statistical computing and graphics | http://www.r-project.org |
| octave | Octave is a Matlab-Clone | http://www.octave.org |
| scigraphica | Scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics | http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net |
| calc | Calc is an arbitrary precision C-like arithmetic system that is a calculator, an algorithm-prototyper, and a mathematical research tool. | http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/ |
| blitz | Blitz++ is a C++ class library for matrix scientific computing | http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz |
Mechanical engineering
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| Qcad | QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions (2d) | http://www.qcad.org/qcad.html |
| FreeFEM | Free |
http://www.freefem.org/ff++/index.htm |
| Scilab | Scilab is a non-Free numerical computational package developed by INRIA and ENPC in France. As Scilab is not Free Software, it cannot be included in Fedora. | http://www.scilab.org/ |
Electrical engineering
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| The Geda Suite | The complete suite for Electrical schematic and simulation | - |
| geda-docs geda-examples geda-gattrib geda-gnetlist geda-gschem geda-gsymcheck geda-symbols geda-utils |
Documentation for gEDA Circuit examples for gEDA Attribute editor for gEDA Netlister for the gEDA project Electronics schematics editor Symbol checker for electronics schematics editor A bunch of symbols of electronic devices used by gschem. Utilities for gEDA |
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| gresistor | To allow for identification, resistors are usually marked with colored bands. Often refereed to as color codes, these markings are indicative of their resistance, tolerance and temperature coefficient. | - |
| gnucap | GNU Circuit Analysis Package | - |
| ktechlab | Development and simulation of microcontrollers and electronic circuits | - |
| Ngspice | A mixed level/signal circuit simulator | - |
| pcb | PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor for the X window system. | - |
| toped | IC Layout Editor | - |
| xcircuit | Xcircuit is a general-purpose drawing program and also a specific-purpose CAD program for circuit schematic drawing and schematic capture. | - |
| qucs | Qucs is a circuit simulator with graphical user interface. The software aims to support all kinds of circuit simulation types, e.g. DC, AC, S-parameter and harmonic balance analysis. | http://qucs.sourceforge.net/ |
| freehdl | A project to develop a free, open source, GPL'ed VHDL simulator for Linux. | http://www.freehdl.seul.org/ |
Chemistry
| <tablewidth="95%"#8080FF> Package Name | <#8080FF> Description | <#8080FF> Link |
| GChemistry | Gnome Chemistry Utils incl. periodic table of the elements, molecular structure viewer and chemical calculator | http://www.nongnu.org/gchemutils/ |
| inchi | The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier library | http://www.iupac.org/inchi/ |
| openbabel | Chemistry software file format converter | http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/ |
| xdrawchem | 2D chemical structures drawing tool | http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/ |
Astronomy
| <tablewidth="95%"#8080FF> Package Name | <#8080FF> Description | <#8080FF> Link |
| sextractor | A program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. | http://terapix.iap.fr/rubrique.php?id_rubrique=91/ |
| wcstools | Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS image. | http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/ |
| stellarium | Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. | http://www.stellarium.org/ |
| funtools | Minimal FITS library and utilities | http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/funtools/ |
| qfits | A stand-alone general purpose FITS library | http://www.eso.org/projects/aot/qfits/ |
| cpl | ESO library for automated astronomical data-reduction | http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/cpl/ |
Biology
| <tablewidth="95%"#8080FF> Package Name | <#8080FF> Description | <#8080FF> Link |
| elph | Tool to find motifs in a set of DNA or protein sequences | http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/ELPH/ |
| glimmer | System for finding genes in microbial DNA | http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/glimmer |
| hmmer | Profile HMM software for protein sequence analysis | http://hmmer.wustl.edu |
| lagan | Local, global, and multiple alignment of DNA sequences | http://lagan.stanford.edu |
| perl-bioperl | A collection of tools for bioinformatics in Perl | http://www.bioperl.org/ |
| perl-biopython | A collection of tools for bioinformatics in Python | http://www.biopython.org/ |
| seaview | Graphical multiple sequence alignment editor | http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/seaview.html |
| SIBsim4 | Align expressed RNA sequences on a DNA template | http://sibsim4.sourceforge.net |