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Category: Scientific

Eye Care Software

hyprsunset – blue light filter for Hyprland

October 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

hyprsunset adjusts colour temperature and gamma in Hyprland, with scheduled profiles, manual controls and automatic profile switching.

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Eye Care Software

wluma – automatic screen brightness adjustment for Wayland

October 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

wluma automatically adjusts brightness using ambient light and screen content on Wayland, learning preferences with multi-monitor support.

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Food and Drink Software

14 Best Free and Open Source Food and Drink Software

October 15, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 high quality food and drink software.

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DNA

14 Best Free and Open Source Web Based Genome Browsers

October 15, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific, Web Apps

A Genome browser provides a graphical interface for users to browse, search, retrieve and analyze genomic sequence and annotation data.

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Eye Care Software

Taline – eye-care break reminder

October 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Taline is an eye-care application with configurable break reminders, countdowns, notifications and support for the 20-20-20 rule.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Chemical Engineering, Kinetics & Thermodynamics Tools

October 14, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Explore free and open source chemical engineering software for Linux, including thermodynamics, chemical kinetics and process simulation.

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17 Best Free and Open Source Linux GPS Tools

October 14, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation satellite system consisting of a network of satellites.

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Eye Care Software

Blink – configurable break reminder

October 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Blink is a configurable break reminder with multiple timers, desktop notifications, optional sounds, commands and input activity tracking.

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DNA

Gosling.js – declarative genomic data visualisation

October 10, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Gosling.js builds interactive genomic visualisations from declarative specifications, with scalable tracks and linked exploration views.

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DNA

D-GENIES – interactive dot plots for genome comparisons

October 10, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

D-GENIES compares large genome assemblies with interactive dot plots, revealing sequence rearrangements, inversions and repeated regions.

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DNA

IGV-Web App – explore genomic data in a web browser

October 9, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

IGV-Web App lets researchers inspect reference genomes, alignments and variant tracks in a browser using local or remote genomic files.

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Kookbook – recipe manager using structured Markdown files

October 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Kookbook manages Markdown recipe collections on Linux, with searchable titles, ingredient indexes, recipe templates and printing support.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Machine Learning in Linux: Local AI Studio – local AI toolkit

October 8, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Local AI Studio combines local LLM chat, Stable Diffusion, Whisper transcription and Kokoro text-to-speech in one Linux interface.

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Foodsoft – web-based software to manage food cooperatives

October 6, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Foodsoft is open source web-based software for managing food cooperatives, including orders, products, members and accounting.

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DNA

CGView.js – interactive circular and linear genome maps

October 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

CGView.js is a library for creating interactive circular and linear genome maps with features, plots and sequence-level navigation.

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DNA

SynFlow – visualize genome alignments and structural variation

October 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

SynFlow explores genome alignments, synteny and structural rearrangements with interactive multi-genome visualizations.

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DNA

Chromoscope – multiscale structural variation genome browser

October 4, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Chromoscope is an interactive web genome browser for exploring structural variation and copy-number patterns across human cancer genomes.

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19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Mapping Tools

October 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This roundup includes mapping software which offers quick access to maps all across the world. We also include some specialised tools.

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Science

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Robotics Software

October 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Robotics is the branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the study of robots. We recommend the best robotics software for Linux.

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Chemistry

Quantum ESPRESSO – electronic-structure and materials modelling suite

October 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Quantum ESPRESSO is a suite for electronic-structure calculations and materials modelling using density-functional theory, plane waves and pseudopotentials.

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