/sci/ - useful science programs

Name: hanumanFX 2009-12-26 8:04

So, what useful, free computer programs are out there for science undergrads -that you would recommend?
I have been very happy with:
* ImageJ - for editing, viewing and merging images, especially fluorescence microscopy data (immunohistochemistry staining)
* Abiword - writing
* past.exe - simple exploratory statistics and diversity analysis: folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/download.html
* Google Scholar: often links to free pdfs of papers on author homepages

p.s.: easy cheap textbook intro in biology-oriented statistics:
"Asking questions in biology" (very cool book but it is a little lightweight on experimental design)

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-26 10:53

fuckin matlab. a lot of universities have a site license so you can get it for free instead of for eighty thousand dollars or whatever ridiculous amount it usually costs.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-26 22:17

Failing matlab, you can get the freeware 'clone' Octave, which has most of the functionality that any undergrad should need for a calc/linear algebra/physics/etc course or degree.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-26 23:20

LaTeX.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-26 23:47

MiKTeX + WinEdt combo for typing shit up.

I use Maple and Mathematica a lot. I'm going to try MATLAB since it seems more popular. Yeah I know, these aren't free, but I sure didn't pay for them.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 0:12

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>I use Maple and Mathematica a lot.
Maple sucks balls.

Also, Sage is free and has much more advanced functionality than mathematica, but less of the "basic" stuff that mathematica does have.

>I'm going to try MATLAB since it seems more popular.
Don't bother.

>Yeah I know, these aren't free, but I sure didn't pay for them.
*brofist*

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 2:26

Try Chemsketch, awesome for drawing organic molecules. There is a free version.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 3:15

Zotero add in for furryfox

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 3:37

if you don't use matlab you are smalltime

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 4:39

Lol, applied math is for fags.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 11:11

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dis nigga speak da troof

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 14:34

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Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 16:30

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* nigger

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-28 10:53

Octave > Matlab

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-28 11:01

zotero is indeed very useful - but firefox only?
a fine starting resource that i can recommend is "DNA from the beginning"
Information and pictures about classical genetics, molecules of genetics, and genetic organization and control. www.dnaftb.org
and the rcsb protein database: www.pdb.org
PLOS one is a free interesting biology journal.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-28 11:03

american science and surplus - not free but cheap geek resources
sciplus.com

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-28 13:54

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hahaha
no

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-29 17:40

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* nigger

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Please take your childish rascism back to /b/, please!

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-30 7:19

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Buy Matlab, I don't give a shit lol.

Octave >> Matlab

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-30 10:50

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http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html
Octave is slow as shit.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-30 12:14

>>21
what is this "buy" you speak of?

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-30 16:03

Definitely get Matlab or Octave..

I use it religiously.. for everything from making graphs to calculating personal budgets..

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-30 17:42

Matlab if you can get it free/cheap from school, Octave otherwise. These will do pretty much anything computational you would need as an undergrad.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-30 18:01

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nigger

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Name: Anonymous 2010-01-02 15:06

yay for latex

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Name: 4tran 2010-01-03 1:07

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lrn2 sage

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lrn2 not be a nigger

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>>18 here, I didn't use sage because the thread was already bumped to the top of the front page.

Name: Anonymous 2010-01-03 7:37

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* nigger

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Do you think he'll ever learn? Just give up dude.

Name: Anonymous 2010-01-03 10:46

Pubmed and Entrez!

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*nigger

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You're both Jews, now STFU

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*kikes

Name: Anonymous 2010-01-04 11:17

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Yes I am sure a 7 year old benchmark with a young octave version is very representative of today.

Name: Anonymous 2010-01-04 17:58

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I'm sure too.

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useful science programs = debate over African American vs nigger
only on 4chan

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web of knowledge, arxiv, bibdesk, mactex, papers, textmate, gnuplot

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Name: Anonymous 2012-05-06 12:15

Graphviz + LaTeX + Sage... Although I'm not too familiar with sage. Does it have built in graph visualization algorithms?

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