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Category: Scientific

DNA

7 Best Free and Open Source Web Based Genome Browsers

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

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

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13 Best Free and Open Source Food and Drink Software

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 13 high quality food and drink software.

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DNA

trackplot – visualize various next-generation sequencing data

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

trackplot is a tool for visualizing DNA-seq, RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq and full-length sequencing datasets.

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DNA

HiGlass – tool for exploring and compare genomic contact matrices and tracks

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

HiGlass is a web-based viewer for datasets too large to view at once.

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Machine Learning

OWLEN – terminal User Interface LLM client for Ollama

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

OWLEN is a Rust-powered, terminal-first interface for interacting with local large language models.

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Reference Managers

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Bibliography Tools

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Roundup, Scientific

A common misconception is that bibliography tools are really only useful for academics. However, this type of software is a type of reference manager offering the ability to collect large amounts of metadata.

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Speech

hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.

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Science

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Robotics Software

October 2, 2025 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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Data Science

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc is a practical tool to provide calculations in practical works in fluid mechanic laboratory.

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Data Science

Water Hammer Simulation – simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Water Hammer Simulation uses different numerical methods to simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon.

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