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Planet Earth

Oceananigans – ocean fluid dynamics simulations on CPUs and GPUs

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Oceananigans.jl is a Julia package for simulating incompressible geophysical fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs.

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Statistics

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Statistical Analysis Tools

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

We recommend the finest software for performing statistical analysis. Open source goodness at its best.

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Bioinformatics

Foldseek – compare large protein structure datasets

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Foldseek is a fast and sensitive command-line tool for comparing large protein structure datasets.

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GPS

SeaDAS Toolbox – NASA ocean colour data processing tools

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

SeaDAS Toolbox contains the core NASA SeaDAS science-processing integration and tools used with the Sea, Earth and Atmosphere Data Analysis System.

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Bioinformatics

Scanpy – scalable toolkit for analysing single-cell gene expression data

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Scanpy is a scalable toolkit for analysing single-cell gene expression data. It can handle datasets containing more than one million cells.

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galaxy

Orfeo ToolBox – remote sensing image processing library

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

OTB is a collection of remote-sensing image processing algorithms for very large optical, multispectral, hyperspectral and radar images.

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Planet Earth

SNAP Engine – Earth observation processing platform

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

SNAP Engine is the core processing platform behind the European Space Agency’s Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP).

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Bioinformatics

SeqKit – manipulate FASTA and FASTQ files

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

SeqKit is a fast, cross-platform command-line toolkit for manipulating FASTA and FASTQ files.

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Bioinformatics

MultiQC – aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

MultiQC is a reporting tool that aggregates results from multiple bioinformatics analyses and samples into a single report

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Wales

wradlib – process weather radar data

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

wradlib is a Python library designed to assist with the processing of weather radar data.

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Deep Learning

PyTorch Lightning – deep learning framework

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

PyTorch Lightning is a deep learning framework for pretraining and fine-tuning models with PyTorch.

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Weather image

Metview Python – Python interface to Metview

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Metview Python provides a Python interface to Metview, a meteorological workstation and batch system.

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Data Science

NCO – manipulate and analyse data stored in netCDF-accessible formats

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

NCO (netCDF Operators) is a suite of command-line programs for manipulating and analysing data stored in netCDF-accessible formats.

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Introduction to R and R Studio for Data Science

VAPOR – interactive 3D visualization environment

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

VAPOR (Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers) is an interactive 3D visualization environment for scientific data.

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Deep Learning

tinygrad – compact end-to-end deep learning stack

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

tinygrad is a compact end-to-end deep learning stack designed to sit somewhere between PyTorch and micrograd.

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Deep Learning

MindSpore – deep learning framework

August 20, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

MindSpore is a deep learning framework for training and inference across cloud, edge, and mobile environments.

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Deep Learning

Equinox – JAX library

August 20, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Equinox is a JAX library for building neural networks and other parameterised models. It provides a PyTorch-like approach

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Development

Pingouin – statistical package for Python

August 19, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Pingouin is a statistical package for Python designed to provide simple yet comprehensive functions for commonly used statistical tests.

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Data Science

SeisBench – toolbox for applying machine learning techniques to seismology

August 19, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

SeisBench provides a common interface for seismic datasets, pretrained models and data-generation pipelines.

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Minisforum N5 Pro NAS – NPU with FastFlowLM

August 19, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Scientific

FastFlowLM puts the Minisforum N5 Pro’s 50 TOPS AMD XDNA 2 NPU to work under Linux for local LLMs and private AI server workloads.

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