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Category: Scientific

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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Electronic circuit

Coulomb – simple and elegant circuit simulator

February 11, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Coulomb is billed as a simple and beautiful circuit simulator app for Linux.

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Nebula

XEphem – Serious Interactive Astronomical Software Ephemeris

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

XEphem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems including Linux.

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Linux at Home - Astronomy

kosmorro – calculate your ephemerides

January 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Kosmorro is a program that calculates your astronomical ephemerides.

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IDE

Zasper – IDE for Data Science

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

Zasper is an IDE designed from the ground up to support massive concurrency.

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Machine Learning

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Intelligence

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

Apple Intelligence is a personal intelligence system that offers powerful generative models. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Wales

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Weather

December 11, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

Apple Weather is a weather app that keeps you informed about conditions including temperature, rain, snow, and wind. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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CPU

Machine Learning in Linux: Simplexity – simple Perplexity AI desktop app

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Simplexity is a cross-platform app that lets you get answers courtesy of the Perplexity AI project.

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Washington

wttr.in – curl the weather

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods.

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Meteo – weather forecast application

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

GTK Meteo is software which tells you the forecast for the next hours and days with data and maps.

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