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Satellite Tool

OrbitDeck – satellite tracking and orbital analysis software

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

OrbitDeck is a cross-platform desktop application for tracking artificial satellites and analysing their orbits

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Reference Management

Papr – terminal workspace for academic research

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Scientific, TUI

Papr is a terminal research workspace combining arXiv discovery, PDF management, reading, notes and LaTeX and Typst manuscript editing.

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Planet Earth

TerriaMap – build and deploy geospatial data explorers

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

TerriaMap is a complete web application for building and deploying geospatial data explorers. It uses the TerriaJS platform.

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Deep Learning

Deep Learning with Open Source Python Software

August 26, 2026 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Scientific

Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning that uses multi-layers artificial neural networks to deliver state-of-the-art accuracy.

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Planet Earth

osgEarth – C++ geospatial SDK

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

osgEarth is a C++ geospatial SDK for adding accurate 3D maps and terrain to applications. It builds on OpenSceneGraph and GDAL

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Data Science

Euporie – work with Jupyter kernels and notebooks

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Euporie is a suite of terminal applications for working with Jupyter kernels and notebooks.

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Big Data

9 Top Data Analysis Free and Open Source Tools for Big Data

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

Big Data analysis can be performed with data mining software. Here’s the best free tools to perform data analysis on big data.

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Data Science

Cantor – graphical front-end for mathematical, statistical and scientific computing software

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Cantor provides an interface for a collection of external programming languages, computer algebra systems and numerical computing packages.

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Data Science

Livebook – create interactive and collaborative code notebooks

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Livebook is a web application for creating interactive and collaborative code notebooks.

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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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