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.
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
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.
- NI LabVIEW by National Instruments
- R, The R Project for Statistical Computing
- SPSS 11 for Mac OS X> by SPSS, Inc.
- Stata by Stata Corporation
