“A long-time Linux user, Evgeny Stambulchik is currently
maintaining the Grace GPL WYSIWYG plotting tool for X. Grace is a
decendant of ACE/gr, also previously known as Xmgr. This is one of
the first WYSIWYG graphing programs that I’ve seen so far for
Linux, and it has a substantial range of graph types available, as
well as annotation capabilities. It also supports a command line
interface for batch-mode graphing….”
“Vivien Malerba has been working on a GPL’d GUI-based
database administration tool for Linux. gASQL currently allows
viewing of existing tables, as well as make some
modifications. More importantly, his interface allows the
admin to see relationships between tables and create simple SELECT
queries to via a graphical interface. Vivien’s approach to
compatibility with different data types is to use plug-ins to wrap
these various types….”
“Doug Loss from the SEUL/edu project pointed me to the
OpenScience project (http://www.openscience.org/). Their primary
contribution appears to be a fairly well developed – but as yet
fairly unpopulated – set of links. They are also hosting two
Java-based chemistry apps, a molecular viewer (Jmol) and an editor
(JChemPaint). I look forward to seeing this site develop over the
next few months.”