Support for Free Software

In the interest of helping to create a society where the sharing of technology, ideas, and knowledge is a universally accepted practice, GrinGene Bioinformatics offers discounted support for the installation and basic operation of selected free software.

Supported software includes the following programs:

Firefox

Web Browser (the thing that allows you to view this document)

GIMP

Raster graphics editor for photo retouching and image manipulation

ImageJ

Image processing and analysis toolkit

Inkscape

Vector graphics editor for diagrams, icons, and logos

LaTeX and TeXmaker

High-quality document preparation and typesetting for technical and scientific documentation

LibreOffice

Office productivity suite for letters, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases

OpenSCAD

3D design, modeling, and animation environment (declarative programming language)

R and RStudio

Statistical computing kitchen sink, generating statistics and associated graphs using short script files

Scribus

Press-ready desktop publishing for posters, brochures, and magazines

Thunderbird

Desktop email client