[release-notes] Convert Scientific and Technical beat
John J. McDonough
jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Fri Mar 25 14:26:07 UTC 2011
commit 4b8f68d9604b7225c738d505e7def41079301810
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 10:26:00 2011 -0400
Convert Scientific and Technical beat
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<section id="sect-RelNotes-Scientific_and_Technical">
<title>Scientific and Technical</title>
- <para> </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Fedora continues to add to its strong complement of scientific
+ and technical packages with a host of new offerings for Fedora
+ 15. In addition to the new packages shown here, many other
+ packages have been updated for this release. Refer to the
+ Fedora Technical Notes at <ulink
+ url="http://docs.fedoraproject.org">http://docs.fedoraproject.org</ulink>
+ for more complete details.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>BEDtools</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>BEDTools</package> is a set of utilities allow to
+ one to address common genomics tasks such as finding feature
+ overlaps and computing coverage. BEDtools is new to Fedora.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>R</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>R</package> is a popular statistics package with
+ many add on packages to address specific needs. Fedora 15
+ brings a few new add-on packages to R.
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>R-GenomicRanges</package> provides general
+ purpose containers for storing genomic intervals as well
+ as more specialized containers for storing alignments
+ against a reference genome.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http" url=
+ "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenomicRanges.html"
+ />.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>R-ROC</package> - The ROC library is a
+ collection of R classes and functions related to
+ receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. These
+ functions are targeted at the use of ROC analysis with
+ DNA microarrays The <package>R-ROC</package> package
+ provides a set of utilities for ROC.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http" url=
+ "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/ROC.html"
+ />.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>R-affydata</package> is a set of example
+ affymetrix datasets. These datasets are somewhat larger
+ than the examples included in the affy package, and are
+ intended to better represent "real-world" datasets.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http" url=
+ "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.6/data/experiment/html/affydata.html"
+ />.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>APE</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>ape</package> (Atomic Pseudopotential Engine) is a
+ tool for generating atomic pseudopotentials within a
+ Density-Functional Theory framework. It is distributed under
+ the GPL and it produces pseudopotential files suitable for
+ use with
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ SIESTA
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ OCTOPUS
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ ABINIT
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ PWscf
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.tddft.org/programs/APE/node/9">http://www.tddft.org/programs/APE/node/9</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>coot</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>coot</package> (Crystallographic Object-Oriented
+ Toolkit) is a set of tools for macromolecular model
+ building, model completion and validation, particularly
+ suitable for protein modelling using X-ray data.
+ <emphasis>coot</emphasis> 0.6.2 is included in Fedora 15.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/">http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>cp2k</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>cp2k</package> is a program to perform atomistic
+ and molecular simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular
+ and biological systems. It provides a general framework for
+ different methods such as e.g. density functional theory
+ (DFT) using a mixed Gaussian and plane waves approach (GPW),
+ and classical pair and many-body potentials.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 includes <emphasis>cp2k</emphasis> version 2.1.
+ For details refer to <ulink
+ url="http://cp2k.berlios.de/">http://cp2k.berlios.de/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>dia-optics</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>dia-optics</package> is a shape library for the
+ popular <emphasis>dia</emphasis> drawing package. The
+ included shapes may be reviewed at <ulink
+ url="http://dia-installer.de/shapes/optics/index_en.html">http://dia-installer.de/shapes/optics/index_en.html</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gpsbabel-gui</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>gpsbabel</package> is a package for manipulating
+ GPS data from a variety of devices and manipulating that
+ data. Fedora 15 now includes a GUI for that data. Refer to
+ <ulink
+ url="http://www.gpsbabel.org/">http://www.gpsbabel.org/</ulink>
+ for additional information.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gretl</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>gretl</package> is a cross-platform software
+ package for econometric analysis. It includes links to
+ <emphasis>R</emphasis>, <emphasis>octave</emphasis> and ox
+ for more detailed analysis. A full list of features may be
+ found at <ulink
+ url="http://gretl.sourceforge.net/">http://gretl.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>libxc</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>libxc</package> is a library of
+ exchange-correlation functionals for density-functional
+ theory. The aim is to provide a portable, well tested and
+ reliable set of exchange and correlation functionals that
+ can be used by all the ETSF codes and also other codes. The
+ project maintains a wiki at <ulink
+ url="http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/wiki/index.php/Libxc">http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/wiki/index.php/Libxc</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>ltl2ba</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>ltl2ba</package> provides fast translation from LTL
+ formulae to Büchi automata. Fedora 15 includes version
+ 1.1.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>openeuclide</title>
+ <para>
+ Also new to Fedora 15 is
+ <package>openeuclide</package>. OpenEuclide is a 2D geometry
+ software: figures are defined dynamically by describing
+ formal geometrical constraints.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>openscada</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>openscada</package> system is open implementation
+ SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 ships the stable release version 0.7.0 with
+ implementations of the database ODBC module, PostgresSQL and
+ transport module of the DB and the new mechanism/module of
+ OpenSCADA system's test; there were found and corrected many
+ errors in order to better optimization, increase stability,
+ sustainability and system's performance. Notable
+ optimization was made in the Visual Control Area (VCA) and
+ its visualizers; changes were made in the VCA engine
+ (UI.VCAEngine) modules: UI.Vision and UI.WebVision
+ visualizers, aimed at stabilizing, optimization of memory
+ consumption and improvement of user's properties of VCA. It
+ has been made a new object API of the user's programming,
+ which provides the integration of user's functions in the
+ objects' tree of OpenSCADA, in addition, to a number of
+ changes to the existing library of functions of the user's
+ API. For all details please refer to the Changelog in your
+ package or to the News section on the project website at
+ <ulink url="http://oscada.org/">http://oscada.org/</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>plotdrop</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>plotdrop</package> is a frontend to GNU plot. Data
+ files are added to plotdrop by simply dragging them from
+ nautilus. The project maintains a website at <ulink
+ url="http://plotdrop.sourceforge.net/">http://plotdrop.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>psfex</title>
+ <para>
+ PSFEx (“PSF Extractor”) extracts models of the
+ Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with
+ SExtractor, and measures the quality of images. The
+ generated PSF models can be used for model-fitting
+ photometry or morphological analyses.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.astromatic.net/software/psfex">http://www.astromatic.net/software/psfex</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>root</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>root</package> is a package for analyzing large
+ amounts of data. Fedora 15 includes several new add-ons for
+ root:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-genetic</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-graf-fitsio</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-hist-factory</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-io</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-proof-pq2</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Project site: <ulink
+ url="http://root.cern.ch/">http://root.cern.ch/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
</section>
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