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Bioinformatics

Bandage – visualising de novo assembly graphs

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Bandage is a program for visualising de novo assembly graphs. It’s written in C++ and runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Bioinformatics

Jalview – multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Jalview is a cross-platform program for multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis. It’s written in Java.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.

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DNA

GIVE – build custom genome browser websites

July 23, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

GIVE (Genomic Interactive Visualization Engine) is a HTML5 library that lets you embed genomic visualization panels.

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ccat – colorizing cat

July 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. Written in Go.

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Video Conversion

FFQueue – frontend for FFmpeg

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

FFQueue is a graphical user interface for FFMpeg with comprehensive support including filtergraphs and other advanced features.

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Video Conversion

Shutter Encoder – video converter tool

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Shutter Encoder is a frontend for FFmpeg. It has been designed by video editors in order to be as accessible and efficient as possible.

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touche – touch command

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

touche is a Rust implementation of the touch utility. This tool was inspired by bonk, another Rust implementation.

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Find

bonk – fast touch alternative

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bonk is billed as a blazingly fast touch alternative with a sprinkle of mkdir. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Data Science

Why Understanding Open Source Software Is Important for Aspiring Data Scientists

July 19, 2023 John O'Donnell Scientific

The data science field is continuously expanding as our digitized technologies produce unprecedented volumes of information.

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Science

Best Free and Open Source Software – Science

July 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, data analysis, statistics, astronomy, weather, and more.

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Internet Radio

Radio – Simple Radio App written in Vala

July 17, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Software

Radio is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. It’s written in Vala and published under an open source license.

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Password Managers

prs – fast and secure password manager for the terminal

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

prs is a secure, fast and convenient password manager for the terminal. Security is backed by the battle-tested GPG.

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Password Managers

KWalletManager – password management tool

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KWalletManager is a tool to manage the passwords on your system. It provides a secure way to store passwords and other secret information.

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Password Managers

Secrets – password manager

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Secrets is a password manager which makes use of the KeePass v.4 format.

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Backup

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Time Machine

July 14, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Time Machine is a built-in backup feature to back up your personal data automatically, including apps, music, photos, emails and documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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ebook reader

Kavita – self-hosted digital library

July 11, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with a focus for being a full solution for all your reading needs.

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ebook reader

COPS – Calibre OPDS (and HTML) PHP Server

July 11, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

COPS is a light alternative to Calibre content server / Calibre2OPDS. It serves ebooks (epub, mobi, pdf and other formats).

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ebook reader

Komga – comics/manga media server

July 11, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Komga is a media server for your comics, mangas, BDs and magazines.

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ebook reader

Calibre-Web – browse, read and download eBooks

July 11, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Calibre-Web is a web app for browsing, reading, and downloading eBooks using a valid Calibre database.

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