Avogadro

Avogadro is a beautiful molecule and material visualization and editing tool. It’s cross-platform and open source, produces high quality images and has some excellent screencasts to help you get starte...

Gabedit – Computational Chemistry Interface

Gabedit provides a graphical front-end to run molecular simulations and can generate outputs in a number of different formats making graphics simple to include in papers and presentations etc. A full d...

Inkscape

Inkscape is a simple image editing programme focussed on generating high quality images with a minimalist user interface to keep everything simple. It’s freely available and open source and you can download it he...

Blender

Blender is an exceptional graphics programme based on the python programming language. It allows users to generate high quality images that have featured on the covers of several journals. Once again it’s freely availab...

LaTeX is a  typing format specifically created for science/mathematics. One of it’s most common applications is to display all the mathematical equations on wikipedia and it is widely used throughout the scientific co...

RSS Feed Readers

You’ve probably all seen this icon when perusing the web, this takes you to the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed for that website. If you want details check out the wiki page, but it is a feed that allows you ...

How to Give a Great Scientific Presentation

The first interactive Python session

So you have downloaded and installed Python. Wonderful! What next? You have a couple of different options. Either you plunge straight into looking at data, plotting and analysing it or, you can get into under...

More science examples using Python

Here are a few examples from various bits and pieces of analysis from my PhD work. The plots can be clicked for an enlarged view. Enjoy!

Fig. 1: Plots showing the effect of unweighted and weighed...

Python: What can it do for us scientists?

The answer is A LOT! Let me clarify..

Though Python is a programming language, in the recent years it has emerged as an extremely powerful tool for a variety of scientific applications: from data ...