Internet-Links to Science Pages and Programs
So this is a bit arbitrary ('editors choice'), but it may be useful for you
Proteins and Molecules
Demonstrations for the classroom some examples created for my lectures, located at the University of Minho
Biomolecules Large Collection of biochemistry, chemistry and biophysics programs as well as internet resources such as biomolecule data banks.
Periodic table, Elements and Isotopes
Periodic table and Nuclid chart for download, many options
Kalzium -KDE Linux based periodic table for download, many options
dynamic Periodic table web based Periodic table with many options such as properties, electron configuration, Isotopes and Compounds, available in many languages
Microscopy and Optics
Carl Zeiss Microscopy Online Campus: Education in Microscopy and Digital Imaging. Many interactive animations on microscopy, optics, fluorescence, Laser, GFP, superresolution etc.
Java- Applets on microscopy, Optics, Laser, GFP etc., Olympus
Java- Applets on microscopy, Optics, Laser, GFP etc., Nikon
Japtik - Java Optik
Java-Applets geometric optics
Physics
Java Applets on Physics
big selection of Java-Applets
JavaPsi- Quantenmechanics Applet
Math and Data plotting and analysis programs
There are some commercial solutions such as origin, sigmaplot, matlab etc, which are exceedingly expensive. Even on a student licence, you have to pay a lot and if you are not a student any longer, what are you going to do with your work..... However there are some freeware (or cheap shareware) programs that may do the job. Some of these programs can load origin format files, although at times, figures have to be retouched. Here just a selection of programs I used, a comprehensive list can be found on Wikipedia 'List of information graphics software'
QTIplot
Shareware for Linux, Windows and Apple, costs vary on type of licence and include helpline. Origin project imports work fine, some minor retouching on the imported graphs may be neccessary
SciDAVis (Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization), works fine under Linux and Windows, as long as you start your project with this program, however import of origin, excel and qti (recent version) files is not working very well or at all.
Labplot available for Linux, included in most distributions as part of the KDEducation
Octave a Matlab clone available for Linux and windows, 4th generation computer language very close to Matlab. Frontends are also available. Scilab is similar, however the syntax is somewhat different from Matlab.
Peter Schellenberg
12 july 2015