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Science WG
Open Source for Scientific Research
The Science top-level project provides a central clearinghouse for collaborative development efforts to create software for scientific research and development. These efforts strive towards the common goal of enabling reusable components across a wide variety of technologies. These components are implemented in different languages and operate across a diverse set of computing environments.
See the Science wiki for more information.
See a discussion of benefits of the Science top level project.
Contents
- 1 Discussion List
- 2 Calendar
- 3 General Meeting Minutes
- 4 Release Plans
- 5 Knowledge Bases
- 6 Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
- 7 Reports
- 8 Charter
- 9 Objectives
- 10 Roadmap
- 11 Organization and Contact
- 12 Media
- 13 Alphabetical List of related open source projects
- 14 Alphabetical List of Proprietary RCP Projects
- 15 Nonbinding List of Interested Partners
- 16 Alphabetical List of Miscellaneous Other Projects
Discussion List
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Calendar
General Meeting Minutes
- April 8, 2014 - 9:00
- March 20, 2014 - 13:30 at EclipseCon 2014
- EclipseCon Europe 2013
- SWG Meeting in Trondheim 2015 (plan)
- EclipseCon Europe 2015: Science Working Group Meeting Minutes
- EclipseCon NA 2016, Reston, VA March 9, 2016
Release Plans
- Eclipse Science 2020 Release (October 2020)
- Eclipse Science 2019 Release (October 2019)
- Eclipse Science 2017 Release (October 10, 2017)
- Eclipse Science Oxygen Release (June 2017)
- Eclipse Science 2016 Release
Knowledge Bases
Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
Steering committee meetings are typically held every month. The members of the steering committee are listed at the Science Working Group Portal. The current committee has elected a chair and a secretary to help organize work. Meeting minutes are kept at working group web page
Reports
- Annual Report 2014
- Annual Report 2015 (work in progress)
Charter
The Science Working Group Charter is available online.
Objectives
The Science Working Group (SWG) works to solve the problems of making science programs inter-operable and interchangeable by defining standards, common principles, and software development collaboration. It helps permeate concepts and capabilities to different research areas which allows serendipitous discoveries to be made.
The SWG, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, is a collaborative effort involving industry, academia, and government to develop reusable open source software for scientific research. The SWG provides governance and infrastructure to enable a collaborative approach to producing technologies used for interdisciplinary analysis of scientific data. The group may package components to regularly release a trusted distribution of software.
Interoperability is another significant bottleneck in scientific research. To address this issue, the SWG will strive to collaboratively develop well defined interfaces, models, definitions, algorithms, and reusable software libraries, services, and applications.
The SWG will strive to become an essential forum for engagement with industry including adoption of SWG output and contribution to SWG initiatives.
More specifically:
- To provide an infrastructure for interoperability between various scientific applications
- To prevent reinventing the wheel over and over again
- To enable an interdisciplinary research and development
- To solve problems as a community and hence to lower the costs of development
- To inspire students and scientists to use and utilize open source software
- To help industrial partners to get better products
Roadmap
Goal of this initiative is to establish an Industry Working Group with a scientific scope. At the current stage, we're collecting projects and interested partners. The aim is to find as much interested parties as possible. A wide range of applications and needs allows us to create a common roadmap that fits the needs of all of its participants.
- Preliminary phase of collecting projects and partners (DONE, and still open to more participants)
- Commit to write a proposal to establish a Science IWG (In progress, see the draft charter)
- Start of an official Eclipse Industry Working Group
- Recruiting of new participants and industrial partners
- Being a proud part of the Science Working Group Community
- Being curious of what's coming next
Organization and Contact
For more information, please contact the working group steering committee.
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Media
- Atomic - Linguistics
- Bioclipse - Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics
- BioExtrac Biobank, Medical Research
- Bio7 - Ecological Modeling, Scientific Image Analysis, Statistical Analysis
- Control System Studio - Scientific Control Systems
- DAWN - Physics
- Elexis - Practice Management, EMR, Healthcare
- GDA - data acquisition software for science facilities such as neutron and x-ray sources
- GumTree - Physics
- KNIME - Data and Image Analysis in Chemistry and Biology
- Maltcms - Chemistry
- NiCE - Integrated Computational Environment for advanced modeling and simulation
- OpenChrom - Chemistry
- openMASP - Chemistry
- Pacx - Linguistics, uses Vex and Subversive
- Passerelle - open workflow solution platform. Applied for data acquisition and control in synchrotron beamlines and similar facilities. Also integrated in DAWN for data analysis workflows.
- PTP - Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform provides an IDE for parallel application development and an RCP application for launching/monitoring applications on HPC systems
- Remote Component Environment (RCE) - Workflow-driven integration environment; aerospace and transport research
- StatET - Integrated development environment (IDE) and GUI for R
- STEM - Epidemiology, Healthcare
- TextGrid - Humanities, uses Vex, funded by German government
- uDig - Geospatial Information System (GIS), hosted by the Eclipse Foundation's LocationTech working group which focuses on location aware technology.
- UOMo - Units of Measurement, UCUM (HL7)
Alphabetical List of Proprietary RCP Projects
- IDL Development Environment - Data visualisation
- Mathematica Workbench - Mathematics
- Nsight Eclipse edition - CUDA GPU development
- OpenflowSuite - Geology, Petroleum
- ProteinScape - Proteomics Data Analysis & Management
- SIMA - Marine operations simulation
- lisa.lims - a laboratory information management system
Nonbinding List of Interested Partners
- Lablicate UG (haftungsbeschränkt) - OpenChrom
- Diamond Light Source, ESRF - DAWN
- German Aerospace Center (DLR) - RCE
- Paul Scherrer Institute - DA+
- Diamond Light Source - GDA
- IFPEN && Tech'Advantage - OpenflowSuite
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory - NiCE
- iSencia - Passerelle
- Uppsala University - Bioclipse
- MARINTEK - SIMA
Alphabetical List of Miscellaneous Other Projects
- Elastic-R - Using R in the cloud
- JScience - Java Tools and Libraries for the Advancement of Sciences
- Scientific Linux - Linux for Scientists
- RJ/RServi - Easy integration of R e.g. in RCP applications