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Satellite Tool

strf – satellite tracking toolkit for radio observations

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

strf is designed to track satellites from radio observations by using Doppler curves to identify satellites and determine their orbits.

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Satellite Tool

GNSS-SDR – software-defined receiver for Global Navigation Satellite System signals

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

GNSS-SDR processes satellite signals to perform detection, synchronization, demodulation, navigation message decoding, and position fixing.

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Natural Language Processing

15 Best Free and Open Source Natural Language Processing Tools

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.

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Satellite Tool

Ground Station – all-in-one satellite monitoring and radio communication suite

March 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Ground Station is designed for amateur radio operators, satellite enthusiasts, and researchers who need a comprehensive platform.

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Planet Earth

6 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Globes

March 24, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Graphics, Roundup, Scientific

There are a number of free and open source applications for Linux which are credible alternatives to Google Earth.

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Data Science

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Science Notebook Software

March 22, 2026 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Scientific

A notebook interface is a virtual collaborative environment which contains computer code and rich text elements. Here’s the best free notebook software.

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Robotics

marina – dataset manager for robotics

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

marina is a dataset manager for robotics to organize, share, and discover datasets and bags across storage backends.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Hobbits – bit-based analysis, processing, and visualization

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Hobbits is a multi-platform GUI application for analyzing, processing, and visualizing bitstreams.

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Bioinformatics

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux Bioinformatics Tools

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This article identifies our favourite tools which are extremely useful for anyone interested in sequence analysis, molecular modelling, molecular dynamics, phylogenetic analysis and more.

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Bioinformatics

FastQC – quality control tool for high throughput sequence data

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

FastQC is a quality control tool for high throughput sequence data.

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Bioinformatics

BCFtools – variant calling and manipulating files in the Variant Call Format

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

BCFtools is a set of utilities for working with variant calls in Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF.

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Bioinformatics

SPAdes – versatile toolkit for assembling and analysing sequencing data

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

SPAdes is a versatile toolkit for assembling and analysing sequencing data. It is primarily developed for Illumina sequencing data

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Bioinformatics

samtools – manipulate next-generation sequencing data

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

samtools is a suite of tools written in C using HTSlib for manipulating next-generation sequencing data.

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Bioinformatics

Galaxy – web-based platform for data-intensive computational research

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Galaxy is an open web-based platform for data-intensive computational research. It’s written mostly in Python.

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Deep Learning

Deep Learning with Open Source Python Software

March 16, 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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Deep Learning

Ralph TUI – AI Agent Loop Orchestrator

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, TUI, Web Apps

Ralph TUI is a terminal UI for orchestrating AI coding agents to work through task lists autonomously.

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Big Data

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

March 15, 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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Statistics

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Statistical Analysis Tools

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

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

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Data Science

Aer – high performance simulator for quantum circuits

March 14, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Qiskit Aer is a high performance quantum circuit simulator written in C++ and Python.

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Data Science

Datui – data exploration in the terminal

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

Datui is an interactive terminal user interface (TUI) for exploring and analyzing data files.

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