Over the decades scientists in quantitative research fields have often experienced a tug-of-war between the desire for large (and expensive) shared computing environments and smaller but powerful workstations that a single scientist could procure for their own lab. The...

Are you finding that Google Earth is not filling your needs while professional geographic software packages are out of reach? Below are a few free open source GIS packages just added to the Element List database. For an exhaustive listing...

The publisher of The Journal of Cell Biology has released an application for sharing biological image data associated with published research called the JCB DataViewer. The viewer not only permits sharing of original image files, but also allows viewers to...