Cross-Discipline Tools

A plethora of tools and applications support many scientific disciplines. On Mac OS X, you’ll find tools and applications that cover a broad scope of disciplines used both in life sciences and physical sciences, including data acquisition, experimental design and analysis; visualization and imaging; instrumentation; and mathematics and statistics.

Image made on Mathematica by Michael Trott

Laboratory Information and Data Management Tools

Featured Applications:

• Biotracker by Ocimum Biosolutions
• Biotrue Collective Data Management System by BioTrue
• Catalyzer Desktop and Server by Axiope
• Finch Suite by Geospiza
• InfoScribe by ISTL
• MySQL by MySQL Inc.
• NuGenesis SDMS by NuGenesis Technologies
• PharmaTracker by Ocimum Bio
• Plone by Tyrell Software Corporation
• PatchLink, PatchLink Corporation
• PostGreSQL by PostgreSQL
• Sybase ASE 12.5 for Mac OS X by Sybase Inc.
• View more Laboratory Information and Data Management applications…

Visualization/Image Analysis

Featured Applications:

Biomedical Imaging

• 3D Slicer by MIT and Harvard Medical School
• Escape Medical Viewer by Escape
• Madena by USC Radiation Oncology
• OsiriX by OsiriX Software
• VGStudio MAX by Volume Graphics

Data Analysis

• Data Tank by Visual Data Tools, Inc.
• IDL by Research Systems, Inc.
• IGOR Pro by WaveMetrics, Inc.
• Mathematica by Wolfram Research, Inc.
• MATLAB by MathWorks, Inc.

Microscopy

• Huygens Essential Deconvolution Package by Scientific Volume Imaging
• ImageJ by ImageJ
• Imaris by Bitplane AG
• iVision by BioVision, Inc.
• Openlab by Improvision, Inc.
• SlideBook by Intelligent Imaging Innovations, Inc.
• Volocity by Improvision, Inc.

Molecular Modeling

• ChemDraw Ultra by CambridgeSoft Corporation
• CrystalEyes Workstation by StereoGraphics Corporation
• CrystalMaker 8.0 by CrystalMaker Software
• Gaussian 03M by Gaussian, Inc.
• iMol by Piotr Rotkiewicz
• MOE — The Molecular Operating Environment by Chemical Computing Group, Inc.

Neuroimaging

• Brain Voyager QX by Brain Innovation
• FreeSurfer by CorTechs & MGH Martinos Imaging Center
• FSL by FMRIB Analysis Group
• MacStim 3.0 by David Darby, WhiteAnt Occasional Publishing
• Neurolens by MGH Martinos Imaging Center
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Mathematics/Statistics

Featured Applications:

• DataTank by Visual Data Tools
• Gauss Mathematical and Statistical System by Aptech Systems
• JMP Statistical Discovery Software by SAS Institute, Inc.
• InStat Mac by GraphPad
• Maple for the Macintosh by Waterloo Maple, Inc.
• Mathematica by Wolfram Research, Inc.
• MATLAB by The MathWorks, Inc.
• R, The R Project for Statistical Computing
• SPSS 11 for Mac OS X by SPSS, Inc.
• Stata by Stata Corporation
• View more Mathematics/Statistics applications…