The SEUL/sci project (http://www.seul.org/sci/) is a group of people interested in using Linux for scientific and engineering applications. SEUL/sci provides an organization where people with common interests can meet, exchange ideas and collaborate. SEUL/sci is a place to share advice, experiences and knowledge with other scientific users. Developers of open source scientific applications will find SEUL/sci to be a useful resource for project hosting, publicity, peer review of code, more users and exposure to more developers. Users will find useful software and timely information on the state of Linux in science. As our group is comprised of people from many parts of the world, we run our project over a mailing list, and we invite others sharing our interests to join. To subscribe to seul-sci, just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject and with "subscribe seul-sci" in the message body. The archives of the seul-sci mailing list, as well as current plans and contacts for the project, can be found at <http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/sci/>. SEUL/sci is currently four projects at the moment, and we invite you to download and try any of them. Feedback to seul-sci is welcome and sought. Chemsuite - A suite for chemical drawing and modelling (Ricardo Stefani) http://chemsuite.seul.org - Chemsuite is actually a suite of several programs in development. One of which, MolCalc, can be used to calculate molecular weights; a second program, Chem2D, is a molecular drawing program currently in development. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://chemsuite.seul.org/chemsuite-src-0.0.35.tar.gz gBib - a BibTeX bibliography database manager (Alejandro Sierra) http://gbib.seul.org - BibTeX is good for references, but sometimes getting the information in the proper format is a challenge. Alejandro's gBib program allows one to browse and edit BibTeX databases, and ensures that all requried fields are filled out. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Binary TGZ: ftp://modelos1.atmosfcu.unam.mx/pub/gbib-0.0.5.bin.tgz Source TGZ: ftp://modelos1.atmosfcu.unam.mx/pub/gbib-0.0.5d.tgz SNAC - SNAC's a Neat Algebraic Calculator (Matias Muchinick) http://snac.seul.org (was previously known as AlGnomegebraic) - SNAC is a desktop calculator that supports simple numeric algebraic calculations. It is designed to be easy to use, and to privide the user with a more friendly tool than those aritmetic desktop calculators. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) i386 RPM: http://snac.seul.org/snac-0.2-1.i386.rpm SRPM: http://snac.seul.org/snac-0.2-1.src.rpm TGZ: http://snac.seul.org/snac-0.2.tar.gz R-Taskhelps - An illustrative documentation project for R (Pete St. Onge) http://www.seul.org/sci/r.html - the R Software System (http://www.r-project.org) is a very powerful and flexible GPL stats program; v.1.0.0 was recently released, but I've been using it since 0.65.0. Documentation for it exists, but may be dense for many users not in a direct statistical field. The first of the R-taskhelps documents focuses on analyses useful for workers in ecological and environmental science. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) We've also contacted Herng-Jeng Jou, the leader of the Scientific Applications on Linux site (http://sal.kachinatech.com/), and he's graciously allowed us to link to specific entries on the SAL site. As our projects develop, we will submit them to SAL (and other sources of relevance to scientific / engineering users) to ensure that these projects have the greatest possible visibility. We hope your thoughts and advice will enrich our discussion and help us make Linux a better tool for improving our understanding and knowledge of the world around us. If you know of anyone else who might be interested in this discussion, please pass on this invitation. --Pete St. Onge, [EMAIL PROTECTED] === SEUL-Announce list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===