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Category: Scientific

Chemistry

ChemCanvas – 2D chemical drawing tool

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

ChemCanvas is a chemical drawing tool. You can draw organic chemical structures and reactions very easily and quickly.

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EDA

Lepton – Electronic Design Automation

March 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Lepton EDA is a suite of software tools for designing electronics. It provides schematic capture, netlisting into over 30 netlist formats, and many other features.

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EDA

Horizon EDA – Electronic Design Automation package

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Horizon EDA supports an integrated end-to-end workflow for printed circuit board design including parts management and schematic entry.

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Chemistry

element – periodic table on the command line

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

element shows the periodic table and more on the command line.

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EDA

DIYLC – circuit layout and schematic drawing tool

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

DIY Layout Creator (DIYLC) is a specialized software tool designed for hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts to create circuit layouts.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: RMBG-2-Studio

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Scientific

RMBG-2-Studio is an enhanced background remove and replace app built around BRIA-RMBG-2.0.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: DiffRhythm – AI song generation

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

DiffRhythm is billed as a blazingly fast and embarrassingly simple end-to-end full-length song generation with latent diffusion.

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Bioinformatics

cramino – BAM/CRAM quality evaluation

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

cramino is a tool for quick quality assessment of cram and bam files, intended for long read sequencing.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Pinokio – Easy Installation of AI Apps

March 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Scientific

Pinokio describes itself as a browser that lets you install, run, and manage server applications on your local machine.

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Chemistry

multiElement – alternative versions of the periodic table of chemical elements

March 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

multiElement offers complete encyclopedic information about each chemical element.

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Chemistry

P-Table – terminal TUI scientific program

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

P-Table is a beautiful TUI periodic table for Linux terminals coded in C with no extra dependencies.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Fooocus – image generating software

February 26, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Fooocus is image generating software that allows users to only focus on text prompts to generate images. It works offline.

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Bioinformatics

GenomeTools – genome analysis software

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

The GenomeTools genome analysis system is a collection of bioinformatics tools (in the realm of genome informatics).

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Jan – alternative to ChatGPT

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Jan is a ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline on your desktop. This is free and open source software.

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Bioinformatics

Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK)

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

GATK is a genomic analysis toolkit focused on variant discovery.

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Bioinformatics

abPOA – adaptive banded Partial Order Alignment

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

abPOA is an extended version of Partial Order Alignment (POA) that performs adaptive banded dynamic programming (DP) with an SIMD implementation.

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Bioinformatics

AliView – alignment viewer and editor

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

AliView is an alignment viewer and editor for bioinformatics that aims to be one of the fastest and most intuitive to use.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Machine Learning in Linux: Software Apps

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Software

This series looks at practical applications of machine learning from a Linux perspective. We feature free and open source software.

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CPU

Machine Learning in Linux: Serge – web interface for chatting

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Serge is a chat interface crafted with LLaMA for running GGUF models.

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Bioinformatics

mothur – analyze microbial communities

February 17, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

mothur fills the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. It’s software for describing and comparing microbial communities.

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