Best Science Software for Mac

Night Sky 3.3 is a planetarium for Mac OS 10.2 'Jaguar'. Night Sky displays the night sky for any latitude, date, and time. This includes 20,000 stars (files with up to 50,071 stars available), the Messier catalog of deep space objects, the planets out to...

BlastStation is an interface program that makes BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) searches faster and easier to use. BlastStation performs NCBI BLAST searches more than 10x faster than the regular sequential NCBI BLAST searches, with the...

The Gene Construction Kit allows graphic manipulation of DNA sequences and sophisticated plasmid drawing options. It has an award winning interface design that allows graphic manipulation of DNA sequences in addition to providing sophisticated...

LabQuest is a standalone and computer interface for Vernier sensors. Use its color touch screen to collect, graph, and analyze data in your classroom or in the field. Created with today's classroom in mind, the LabQuest is designed with rubber...

OSXStereonet plots lines and planes in a stereographic, equal angle or equal area, projection. The program can produce various types of plots such as scatter plots, great circle plots, contour diagrams, rose diagrams, stereonets from any orientation, and...

ODLog is an easy-to-use application for the accurate timing and recording of observational data. ODLog is typically used by scientists for naturalistic field observation studies, animal behavior experiments, psychology experiments. Although ODLog was...

SeisMac turns your Sudden Motion Sensor-equipped laptop into a three-axis seismograph. It shows a scrolling chart of the three axes of acceleration, reading two hundred samples per second. The resizable, real-time scrolling display shows an enormous...

Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.The problems we are trying to solve require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their...

BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. Many different projects can use BOINC. Projects are independent; each one operates its own servers and databases. Participants can participate in multiple...

The I-Doser application for Mac OSX scientifically syncs your brainwaves to achieve a specific mood or experience, as outlined by the dose you are taking. It does this through the use of a binaural beat dose that changes your brainwave patterns to make...