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Applications
Mathematical
Modelling Software
Statistical
MATLAB s a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.
Mathworks
Legion
staff home use, student home use
Acrobat Reader
Designed to view, create, manipulate and manage files in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF)
Adobe
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
DesktopStaff
Modelling Software
A fully-interactive visualization and analysis of crystal and molecular structures.
CrystalMaker
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Reference Management
Reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.
Thomson Scientific
Staff WTS 2010
Designed to view, create, manipulate and manage files in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).
Adobe
Utilities
A cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application
Adobe
Library
Aleph provides academic, research, and national libraries with the efficient, user-friendly tools and workflow support
Ex Libris
Utilities
Antioch is a utility which allows you to type classical Greek, Hebrew and Coptic in Word
Antioch
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Geographic
AquaChem is a groundwater software package specifically tailored for anyone working with water data.
Schlumberger Water Services
Geographic
An advanced and easy-to-use groundwater software package for graphical analysis and reporting of pumping test and slug test data.
Schlumberger Water Services
Statistical
ATLAS.ti is a computer software program used mostly, but not exclusively, in qualitative research or qualitative data analysis.
Atlas.ti
CAD Software
AutoCAD is a CAD (Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting) software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting. Now available on Mac and Windows
Autodesk
DesktopPC
Inventor Robot Structual Analysis, student home use, autodesk
Barcode font 3 of 9
Utilities
A Font that format characters as Bar codes.
Netlabels
Applications
Statistical
For the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. Bioconductor provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. Bioconductor uses the R statistical programming language - see below for information about R on Legion.
BioConductor
Legion
Reporting Tools
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application unifies and streamlines the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process and can enable a faster close
Geographic
C2 is a Microsoft Windows program for analysing and visualising palaeoenvironmental data.
University of Newcastle
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Statistical
CanoDraw supports thoroughly all the visual aspects of multivariate data analysis with linear and unimodal ordination methods
Plant Research International
Statistical
The most popular tool for constrained and unconstrained ordination in ecological applications.
Microcomputer Power
Utilities
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs
CDBurnerXP
DesktopPC
Modelling Software
Visualize a chemically intelligent drawing interface that provides a portal to an entire range of analytical tools, and facilitates the transformation of structural or analytical data into professional, easy-to-decipher reports or presentations
Advanced Chemistry Development
Graphic Editing
With vector illustration, page layout, photo-editing and tracing software, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is ideal for professional and occasional designers tackling any type of graphics project
Corel
Statistical
A spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations,
Crimstat
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Utilities
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.
Red Hat
DesktopPC
Statistical
DemoGraphics is a software package, which makes it easy to browse, analyse and present (global) demographic data from the United Nations Population Assessments and Projections (1996 edition).
Gerhard K. Heilig
Statistical
Depthmap is a single software platform to perform a set of spatial network analyses designed to understand social processes within the built environment
University College London
DesktopPC
GIS / Mapping
Digimap is a collection of EDINA services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education.
Edina
Statistical
The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is computer software that computes rate-of-change statistics from multiple historic shoreline positions residing in a GIS. It is also useful for computing rates of change for just about any other boundary chang
Statistical
Convert diary information into nutrient data, and are described in the data processing section.
University of Cambridge
Plug Ins
A digital document format with advanced compression technology and high performance value
Lizardtech
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Programming
A multi-language software development environment comprising an IDE and a plug-in system to extend it.
Eclipse
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Library
Legacy service which uses Citrix to serve out a handful of index/abstract resources which don't have a web front end.
University College London
Modelling Software
Contains detailed, illustrated coverage of the first two months of human embryonic development and charts the emergence of the head and neck, nervous system, special senses and all the major organ systems of the thorax and abdomen.
University College London
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
GIS / Mapping
ENVI is the premier software solution for processing and analyzing geospatial imagery used by scientists, researchers, image analysts, and GIS professionals around the world.
ITT Visual Information Solutions
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Epidata
Statistical
Performs basic statistical analysis, graphs, and comprehensive data management.
Epidata
Statistical
Computes a variety of biodiversity functions, estimators, and indices based on biotic sampling data
EstimateS
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Utilities
PC X server that empowers Windows users with cost-effective access to X Window applications on UNIX and Linux hosts with unparalleled performance and strong security
Humming Bird
DesktopPC
Multimedia
Software for viewing animations and movies using computer programs such as a web browser.
Adobe
Staff WTS 2010
Geographic
Software for modelling groundwater flow, re mediation, and wellhead protection.
Scientific Software Group
Anti Virus
F-secure anti-virus, Firewall and computer security software. Note the vendor is now WithSecure as of June 2024.
WithSecure
DesktopStaff
f secure, anti virus, security, fsecure, withsecure,
Statistical
A high-level modelling system for mathematical programming and optimization
Geographic
Primarily intended for analysing the stability of natural and man-made earth slopes
Geo-Slope
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Geographic
GeoTrig is a collection of geologically-related geometric and trigonometric problem solvers
Rockware
Utilities
An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built i
Ghostscript
DesktopPC
Utilities
GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories.
GNUPG
CAD Software
A 3D modelling program designed for architects, civil engineers, film makers, game developers, and related professions.
DesktopPC
GIS / Mapping
A free, open source geographical information system (GIS) capable of handling raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphic data.
GRASS
Geographic
GW Contour offers the perfect combination of tools and techniques for groundwater and environmental professionals.
Schlumberger Water Services
DesktopPC
Utilities
Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
Half Baked Software Inc
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
TreeBank software
ICE-GB consists of a million words of spoken and written English and adheres to the common corpus design. 200 written and 300 spoken texts make up the million words. Every text is grammatically annotated, permitting complex and detailed searches across th
University College London
Modelling Software
Empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps
Cmap Tools
Accessibility
Modelling Software
Inspiration is the essential visual thinking and learning tool students rely on to plan, research and complete projects successfully.
Inspiration Software Inc
Graphic Editing
An image viewer that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio formats.
Ifran View
Programming
Java is a programming language and computing platform. This products license has changed please review before installing and understand your usage rights
Oracle
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Java, Oracle
Jdiskreport
Utilities
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.
Utilities
Allows a web enabled Oracle Forms client application to be run inside a web browser.
Oracle
Programming
Statistical
Is a platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments.
National Instruments
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
multisim ni
(London Agreed Protocol for Teaching) uses Certainty-Based Marking (CBM - see below) in the presentation of teaching material.
University College London
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
Statistical
For structural equation modelling now includes statistical methods for complex survey data
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
geospatial processing & analysis
LL2DXF translates OS Land-Line in NTF format to DXF format for use in CAD and graphics applications
GeoTools
Applications
Mathematical
A computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing.
Wolfram Research
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Unity
staff home use, student home use
Mesquite
Statistical
Mesquite is software for evolutionary biology, designed to help biologists analyse comparative data about organisms.
Mesquite
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Utilities
An up-to-date implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows (all current variants).
Miktex Project
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Modelling Software
Based around the concept of Mind Mapping, which allows the user to capture large amounts of disparate information and gives them the ability to view content from different viewpoints.
Mindgenuis
DesktopPC
Libraries
Mathematical
Programming
Statistical
Utilities
The product is a software library of numerical analysis routines. It comprises a collection of 1500 mathematical and statistical algorithms. Areas covered include linear algebra, optimization, quadrature, differential equations, regression analysis.
student home use, staff home use
NDP.view
Applications
Utilities
Viewing software specially designed for digital slide observation. Allows making observations just as if operating a microscope.
Hamamatsu Photonics
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Modelling Software
NEURON is a simulation environment for modelling individual neurons and networks of neurons.
Neuron
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Programming
Utilities
Source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
Notepad++
Multimedia
Statistical
It has been designed for qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.
Staff WTS 2010
staff home use, student home use
Office Professional Plus
Database
Email
Multimedia
Office Suite
Share information and work across geographical or organisational boundaries with Office Professional Plus.
Access, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word
Microsoft
Microsoft Office,
Open Office
Desk Top Publishing
Graphic Editing
Office Suite
A free productivity Suite, includes Write, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base
Sun Microsystem
Utilities
To provide radiocarbon calibration and analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information
University of Oxford
Statistical
Data analysis package originally aimed at palaeontology but now also popular in ecology and other fields.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Graphic Editing
Adobe Photoshop Elements software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look extraordinary, share your life stories in unique print creations and web experiences, and easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips.
Adobe
Multimedia
Capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and interactive panoramic images
Apple
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Multimedia
Plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Applications
Financial
Programming
Statistical
Is an integrated system of software products. That enables the programmer to perform:
data entry, retrieval, management, and mining
report writing and graphics
statistical analysis
business planning, forecasting, and decision support
operations
Legion
staff home use, student home use
Seismic Eruptions
Geographic
A program for the visualization of seismicity and volcanic activity in space and time.
Alan L Jones
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Geographic
Seismic Waves is a Windows program which illustrates how wave propagate from an earthquake hypocenter to seismic stations throughout the earth.
Alan L Jones
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Scientific Graphing
SigmaPlot provides more than 100 different 2-D and 3-D graph types. From simple 2-D scatter plots to compelling contour plots, SigmaPlot gives you the exact technical graph type you need for your demanding research.
Scientific Graphing Software
Screen Capture
Capture anything you see on the screen. Edit and combine those captures. Share them via your favorite applications. Organize and find them again later.
TechSmith
Speech Capture
SFS 4/Windows is a free computing environment for PCs for conducting research into the nature of speech
University College London
Statistical
Integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics.
Stata
ic se mp, home use
StatTransfer
Statistical
Designed to simplify the transfer of statistical data between different programs.
Circle Systems
Geographic
STELLA offers a practical way to dynamically visualize and communicate how complex systems and ideas really work.
Isee Systems Ltd
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Utilities
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.
Latex
Statistical
A Windows (95 and above) program that views and prints *.tgf files generated by the DOS version of Tilia*Graph.
Illinois State Museum
Utilities
TreePad is a Personal Information Manager, Organizer, Database, and Word Processor
Freebyte.com
Statistical
A program for classifying species and samples, producing an ordered two-way table of their occurrence.
Canodraw
Diagramming
A diagramming program for Microsoft Windows that uses vector graphics to create diagrams
Microsoft
DesktopPC
Programming
An object-oriented computer programming language that can be viewed as an evolution of Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) which is implemented on the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Microsoft
Multimedia
VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols
VideoLAN
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Statistical
WindBugs is statistical software for Bayesian analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.
Imperial College School of Medicine
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Multimedia
A digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers
Microsoft
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Staff WTS 2010
Statistical
Adds non-metric multidimensional scaling method to the Canoco for Windows package
Canodraw
Utilities
WinPH is a winsock-based CCSO PH (phonebook) client program. It runs under windows, and is a 32bit program.
WInPH
An open source SFTP and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality
WinSCP
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
The program classifies species and samples, producing an ordered two-way table of their occurrence. The process of classification is hierarchical; samples are successively divided into categories, and species are then divided into categories on the basis
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Office Suite
Corel WordPerfect Office is the ideal office software for home and business users, delivering more productivity tools that make your work go faster and your life go easier
Corel
Accessibility
Utilities
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
Workrave
Statistical
Used extensively for automated model calibration and data interpretation in groundwater and surface-water hydrology, geophysics, geotechnical, mechanical and mining engineering as well as many other fields.
Scientific Software Group
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Utilities
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is essential for today's digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images — from one shot to an entire shoot. With Lightroom 2, you spend less time in front of the co
Adobe
Multimedia
With Adobe Captivate software, you can rapidly author professional eLearning content with advanced interactivity, software and scenario simulations, quizzes, and other engaging experiences — no programming or multimedia skills required. Boost your produ
Adobe
Operating System
Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces
Microsoft
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
DesktopStaff
windows, Operating system, windows 10, windows 7, windows 11
ColdFusion
Multimedia
Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe ColdFusion Builderâ„¢ enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. ColdFusion allows developers to condense complex business logic into fewer lines of code.
Adobe
Video Editing
With Adobe Premiere Elements software, making incredible movies is easier than ever. Enhance your stories with professional style. Share virtually anywhere. And easily manage and protect all your video clips and photos.
Adobe
Database
SQL Server Standard edition includes the core database engine, along with the stand-alone services. It differs from Enterprise edition in that it supports fewer active instances (number of nodes in a cluster).
Microsoft
Operating System
Windows Server is one of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems
Microsoft
Programming
Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services.
Microsoft
Scientific Graphing
Statistical
Origin is an easy-to-use software application that provides powerful data analysis and publication-quality graphing capabilities tailored to the needs of scientists and engineers.
OriginLab
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
staff home use, student home use
Allway Sync
Utilities
Allway Sync is free file and folder synchronization software for Windows.
Allway Sync uses innovative synchronization algorithms to synchronize your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. Allway Sync combines bulletproof reliability wi
Utilities
Fetch for Mac OS X provides file transfer using both FTP and secure FTP. The client is available at no charge to educational institutions
fetch softworks
Utilities
iSpring Free PowerPoint to Flash converter promptly creates web-friendly Flash (.SWF) presentations from your PowerPoint content (.PPT, .PPS, .PPTX, .PPSX) keeping its visual parameters, animation effects and slide transitions, audio narrations, video an
ISpring Solutions
Teaching & Learning
UCL Moodle is the centrally supported virtual learning environment (VLE) used in over 2000 of UCL's courses and programmes to support and enhance teaching, learning and research. All members of UCL are able to login to Moodle.
The Moodle service is pro
Moodle.org
Geographic
MapInfo Professional has the ability to combine and display, on a single map, data from a variety of sources that are in different formats and projections. The software is capable of overlaying raster and vector layers on the same map.
Pitney Bowes
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Statistical
JMP (pronounced "jump") is a computer program that was first developed by John Sall and others to perform simple and complex statistical analyses. It dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand, and visualize data.
Staff Home use, student home use
VMware Workstation
Utilities
virtualization software.
VMware
Utilities
provides remote access services to multiple users across a wide range of platforms.
Citrix
Email
Exchange server Enterprise Edition enables rich and productive collaboration among its users and is designed for larger organisations that may require a greater number of mailbox databases.
Microsoft
Accessibility
Utilities
A literacy support software designed to assist users of all ages who require extra assistance when reading or composing text. The software provides users with dyslexia, literacy difficulties and English as a Second Language with literacy support.
TextHELP
Applications
Modelling Software
Gaussian 09 (g09) is a system of linked programs for electronic structure modeling.
Gaussian Inc.
Legion
Unity
Applications
Modelling Software
Gaussian 03 (G03) is a system of linked programs for electronic structure modeling.
Gaussian Inc.
Legion
Unity
Applications
Modelling Software
Molpro is a complete system of ab initio programs for molecular electronic structure calculations
University College Cardiff Consultants Limite
Legion
Libraries
ARPACK is a library that is designed to help solve eigenvalue problems. PARPACK is a parallel version of ARPACK for MPI.
Legion
Libraries
Bonnie++ is a benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.
Legion
Libraries
BLACS is a linear algebra orientated message passing interface. It is built for GCC and GCC 4.4.0, both with OpenMPI. Users of Intel compilers should use MKL.
Legion
Libraries
FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e. the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST).
Legion
Libraries
The GNU Scientific Library provides numerical routines. On Legion, there are versions for all the supported compilers.
Legion
Libraries
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
Legion
Libraries
Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirecitonal throughput, and end-to-end latency
Legion
Libraries
PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots. To help accomplish that task it is organized as a core C library, language bindings for that library, and device drivers which control how the plots are presented in non-interactiv
Legion
Libraries
ScaLAPACK is a parallel subset of LAPACK. There are versions on Legion for system GCC and GCC 4.4.0 compilers with OpenMPI. This library depends on the corresponding ATLAS, OpenMPI and BLACS libraries.
Legion
Applications
Cmgui is an advanced 3D visualisation software package with modelling capabilities.
Legion
Applications
CP2K performs atomistic and molecular simulations. There are two versions on Legion: The most recent branch version (2_1) and the trunk release as of 15th February 2011.
CP2K has considerable dependencies (including a special version of OpenMPI) an
Legion
Applications
DL_poly 4 is the latest release of DL_Poly. Please read the license before using this software.
Legion
Applications
LAMMPS is an open source parallel molecular dynamics code which exhibits good scaling in a wide range of environments. The version deployed on Legion has been built as both an executable ("lmp_legion") and as a library ("liblmp_legion.a").
Legion
Applications
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics package which shows exceptional scaling on a variety of systems. NAMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University
Legion
Applications
R (GNU S) is an integrated suite of software for data manipulation, analysis and graphical display with strong support for a wide range of statistical methods. A number of add-on packages are also installed.
Bioconductor provides tools for the analysi
Condor
Legion
Unity
Applications
ROOT provides a set of OO frameworks for handling, analysing, and visualising large amounts of data. Included are specialised storage methods, methods for histograming, curve fitting, function evaluation, minimization etc. ROOT includes a built-in CINT C+
Legion
Applications
VAMP/VASP (Build and run instructions only) is a package for performing ab-initio quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics (MD) using pseudopotentials and a plane wave basis set.
Legion
Utilities
With VMware Fusion, run the most demanding Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds without rebooting.
VMware
Statistical
G*Power 3 is a major extension of, and improvement over, G*Power 2. It covers statistical power analyses for many different statistical tests
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Modelling Software
Programming
Nyquist is a language for sound synthesis and music composition. It is implemented in C and C++ and runs on Win32, OSX, and Linux. Nyquist combines a powerful functional programming style with efficient signal-processing primitives.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Programming
BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Statistical
Rooks Case: Calculates Spatial Autocorrelation, Moran's I, Geary's C, Join-Count, Gi, G*i, Import IDRISI, Randomization for Monte Carlo Simulation.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Statistical
This program will calculate Offense Dispersion Index and associated values for specific crime data in a fixed format
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Risk Management
The DecisionTools Suite is an integrated set of programs for risk analysis and decision making under uncertainty that runs in Microsoft Excel.
Palisade
DesktopPC
@Risk Industrial
Risk Management
@RISK performs risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation to show you many possible outcomes in your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet—and tells you how likely they are to occur.
Database
Windows Server Datacenter is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it ea
Microsoft
Statistical
The Signals ChemDraw software suite combines ChemBioDraw, ChemBio3D, ChemFinder, BioViz, BioAssay, Inventory and E-Notebook in the world’s premier desktop suite designed for both chemists and biologists.
Chem Bio Ultra, ChemOffice, Cambridgesoft
CasaXPS
Modelling Software
CasaXPS processing software offers powerful analysis techniques for both spectral and imaging data
Development Tools
Microsoft System Center std or datacenter makes it easier for IT to empower users to be productive with a unified infrastructure that delivers and manages rich user experiences across corporate and consumer devices.
Microsoft
Operating System
RedHat is a UCL site licensed Linux product for servers and Workstation. If you would like to use Red Hat you must first contact your local IT Team or email
[email protected]
Red Hat
SharePoint Server: enables organizations to create web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help make better decisions.
Microsoft
Development Tools
Programming
Contains The Portland Group's native parallelizing/optimizing Fortran 2003, C and C++ compilers and tools for 64 bit Linux systems.
The Portland Group, Inc.
Legion
Accelrys Draw enables scientists to draw and edit complex molecules, chemical reactions and biological sequences with ease, facilitating the collaborative searching, viewing, communicating, and archiving of scientific information.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
CogTool is a general purpose UI prototyping tool with a difference - it automatically evaluates your design with a predictive human performance mode
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Distance is a Windows-based computer package that allows you to design and analyze distance sampling surveys of wildlife populations.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
GDIS is a GTK based program for the display and manipulation of isolated molecules and periodic systems
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Programming
NetBeansTM IDE is a modular, standards-based integrated development environment (IDE), written in the JavaTM programming language
Oracle
GIS / Mapping
Coulomb 3.0 is designed to investigate Coulomb stress changes on mapped faults and earthquake nodal planes, and is intended both for publication-directed research and for university teaching and instruction. Available with Matlab.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Programming
GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system
Microsoft
Library
Latin Flash Drill is an advanced system for drilling grammatical forms and for making a self-diagnosis of where help and practice is most needed
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Utilities
Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
DesktopStaff
Web Editing
oXygen XML Editor is a cross platform XML Editor providing tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XSL, XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Programming
Visual Studio Express tools, you can build the next great app for Windows 8, Windows Phone, and the web
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Utilities
WinPT or Windows Privacy Tray is frontend to the Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) for the Windows platform.
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
Utilities
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium ignites new levels of productivity by letting you interact with your PC by voice at work, home or school.
Dictate or modify documents, spreadsheets and presentations, send email, search the Web and more. Even capture
Nuance
Applications
Mathematical
Programming
Statistical
The NAG Toolbox for MATLAB is a large and comprehensive numerical toolkit that both complements and enhances MATLAB. It contains over 1,500 functions that provide solutions to a vast range of mathematical and statistical problems.
Applications
Capture
Desk Top Publishing
Graphic Editing
Multimedia
PDF
Screen Capture
Video Capture
Video Editing
Web Editing
Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more.
Adobe
cc suite, Indesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Acrobat, staff home use, student home use, corel, presenter, indesign, premiere pro, acrobat Pro, audition, spark,
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Libraries
Comprehensive of the published literature and highly curated, the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is an essential resource to scientists around the world. Only for use on UCL machines in the UK
Teaching & Learning
With LabTutor you can create and manage feature-rich courses and conduct lessons either in a traditional laboratory setting, or over the web.
ADInstruments
DesktopPC
Utilities
Lingo for Windows has been designed to meet the needs of translators, localizers and businesses that need to create and maintain their own terminology bases, dictionaries or glossaries, whether monolingual or multilingual.
Lexicool
Applications
Utilities
MemoQ is a computer-assisted translation software suite which runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
MemoQ provides translation memory, terminology, machine translation integration and reference information management in desktop, client/server
Kilgray Fordítástechnológiai Kft.
DesktopPC
PDF
Reference Management
Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.
It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application with Mendeley Web, an online social network fo
Elsevier
Desktop@UCL Anywhere
DesktopPC
Modelling Software
ModelBuilder is used to build, validate, execute and deploy high-fidelity predictive models of chemical processes, which can be validated against experimental or plant data using built-in advanced parameter estimation techniques.
Process Systems Enterprise
Utilities
AB Tutor is the perfect teaching tool for networked classrooms and labs, allowing you to simply and effectively control, manage, monitor, demonstrate, support and collaborate with your students.
Computers in the classroom have created amazing opportun
DesktopPC
Qualitative Analysis
A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.
DesktopPC
Multimedia
Sound Recording
Video Capture
Video Editing
Create great demos and tutorials, with BB FlashBack Express. The free screen recorder
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Modelling Software
CHEMCAD is Chemstations’ intuitive suite of chemical process simulation software that broadens an engineer’s capabilities and increases productivity. CHEMCAD supercharges an engineer’s efficiency when facing the toughest chemical process models or address
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Utilities
DROID is a software tool developed by The National Archives to perform automated batch identification of file formats. Developed by our Digital Preservation department as part of its broader digital preservation activities, DROID is designed to meet the f
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Document Management
FileOpen provides tools to decide exactly who can view documents and files, when and from which devices.
DesktopPC
Development Tools
The essential tools for any Java developer, including a Java IDE, a CVS client, Git client, XML Editor, Mylyn, Maven integration and WindowBuilder
This package includes:
•Eclipse Git Team Provider
•Eclipse Java Development Tools
•Maven Integrati
Eclipse
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DesktopPC
Utilities
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address.
Just upload your i
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Development Tools
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality
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Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. It outclasses SC
DesktopPC
Project Management
Teaching & Learning
The Project Scheduling Game (PSG) is an IT-supported simulation game to get acquainted with dynamic project scheduling using the critical path method.
OR-AS
DesktopPC
Applications
Utilities
SDL MultiTerm Extract is a tool used to build searchable glossaries.
DesktopPC
Applications
The pinyin method (simplified Chinese: 拼音输入法; traditional Chinese: 拼音輸入法; pinyin: pīnyīn shūrù fǎ) refers to a family of input methods based on the pinyin method of romanization.
In the most basic form, the pinyin method allows a user to input Chinese
Google
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Database
Development Tools
Oracle SQL Developer is a development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database.
Oracle
Applications
Utilities
System Quirk is a flexible package of integrated tools for building and managing term bases.
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Scientific Graphing
Utilities
Tilia is spreadsheet and graphics software orginally developed for fossil pollen and for producing stratigraphic pollen diagrams
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Multimedia
The Unity Web Player enables you to view 3D content created with Unity directly in your browser.
Unity Technologies
DesktopPC
Programming
VPython is the Python programming language plus a 3D graphics module called Visual. VPython allows users to create objects in 3D space and displays these objects in a window.
DesktopPC
Modelling Software
Insert channels in a membrane and see what happens. See how different types of channels allow particles to move through the membrane.
Multimedia
Plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats
Apple
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Teaching & Learning
SMART Notebook software provides the tools to create and deliver interactive learning experiences across year group levels, subjects and learning styles.
SMART Technologies
DesktopPC
Scientific Graphing
A program which graphs the Nernst/Goldman Equation in real time based on user defined K+, Na+ and Cl- parameters.
Michael Branch
Database
MySQL Workbench provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for:
Database Design & Modeling
SQL Development
Database Administration
Database Migration
Teaching & Learning
Language, Proof and Logic covers topics such as the boolean connectives, formal proof techniques, quantifiers, basic set theory, and induction.
DesktopPC
MicroDrainage 2014
MicroDrainage is a world class drainage design tool. Used for 30 years, thi
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Modelling Software
IGW is a real-time, interactive and visual
software system for unified deterministic and
stochastic groundwater modeling
geospatial processing & analysis
The most accurate and reliable geographic profiling available.
Now, easier to use than ever. Create custom layouts with free placement of floating and docked windows across multiple monitors, collapse windows to tabs, save case-specific layouts. Customiz
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Geographic
EKKO_Project features unique managing and display of GPR line data and ancillary data, enhanced viewing of file attributes, and the biggest benefit – use of a single file to store all information in a GPR project. All GPR data, GPS, topography, photos, n
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Utilities
Subtitle Workshop is a free application for creating, editing, and converting text-based subtitle files.
DesktopPC
CAD Software
SOLIDWORKS solutions cover all aspects of your product development process with a seamless, integrated workflow—design, verification, sustainable design, communication and data management
student home use
3ds Max
Modelling Software
3ds Max is 3D modelling, rendering and animation software
CAD Software
Inventor 3D CAD software offers an easy-to-use set of tools for 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation
Autodesk
autodesk
Captiva
Capture
Scanning
Utilities
UCL scanning solution
OpenText
Scanning, Capture, Utilities
Gaussian 16
Applications
Modelling Software
Gaussian 16 is a system of linked programs for electronic structure modeling.
Gaussian Inc.
a free, open source, multi-platform software designed to split, merge, extract pages, mix and rotate PDF files
student home use, staff home use
Power PDF Advanced
Power PDF is the ultimate PDF solution. Perfect for the individual or the enterprise, it’s simply the best way to gain control over PDF files. Power PDF provides superior accuracy, industry standard PDF compatibility and is exceptionally easy to use
Nuance, power PDF, PDF
Gurobi Optimizer
Mathematical
Modelling Software
Statistical
The Gurobi Optimizer is a solver for mathematical programming.
Accessibility
Utilities
Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen.
It zooms the screen through a lens that follows your mouse.
Applications
Desk Top Publishing
Graphic Editing
Multimedia
Screen Capture
Video Capture
Video Editing
Web Editing
Adobe Creative Cloud suite for open space areas only
Adobe
cc suite, Indesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Acrobat, staff home use, student home use, corel, presenter, indesign, premiere pro, acrobat Pro, audition, spark,
Microsoft Teams
Office Suite
Microsoft Teams allows you to collaborate with your co-workers through instant messaging, online meetings and sharing of documents.
Microsoft
Skype, teams, Zoom, webinar
Microsoft Teams dial in feature
Office Suite
This is needed to allow people to dial in to a meeting. Good to be used with externals.
Microsoft
Skype, teams, Conferencing, meetings, teamviewer, zoom
Office 365 Desktop Apps
Office Suite
Office 365 is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office product line
Microsoft
Office, word, excel,access
Articulate 360
Teaching & Learning
Articulate 360 includes both Storyline 360 and Rise 360, plus a slew of other authoring apps. Use Storyline 360 to develop custom, interactive courses that work on every device—without any manual tweaking.
Utilities
A remote conferencing service that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration. Use as alternative to Microsoft Teams or Blackboard Collaborate to support global synchronous teaching events. Also integrated into Moodle.
webinar
Tableau Reader
Open visualisations built in
Tableau Desktop
Applications
Adobe PhoneGap is a standards-based, open-source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript for iOS, Android™ and Windows® Phone 8.
Adobe
Applications
View DWG files or convert them to work with older versions of AutoCAD software.
Autodesk
Applications
Navisworks Manage project review software helps you holistically review integrated models and data with stakeholders to gain better control over project outcomes. Integration, analysis, and communication tools help teams coordinate disciplines, resolve co
Autodesk
Applications
Use Revit to produce consistent, co-ordinated and complete model-based building designs and documentation
Autodesk
Statistical
Amos is a powerful structural equation modeling software helping support your research and theories by extending standard multivariate analysis methods, including regression, factor analysis, correlation, and analysis of variance.
SPSS, AMOs
MagMap
Applications
MagMap is a post acquisition processing software used to analyze and process data from a number of different instruments
CAD Software
Fusion 360 CAD/CAM software connects your entire product design & development process in a single tool
Autodesk
autodesk, autocad
Robot Structural Analysis Professional
CAD Software
Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional software provides structural engineers with advanced building simulation and analysis capabilities for large, complex structures. The software offers a smooth workflow, enabling engineers to more quickly p
Autodesk
autodesk
DesignBuilder
DesignBuilder is now the most widely used energy modelling tool
Utilities
figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. Used for UCL Research Data Repository
storage, Figshare, UCL Research Data Repository
MS Visual Studio Code
Utilities
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimised for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications
NCBI Osiris
OSIRIS is a public domain quality assurance software package that facilitates the assessment of multiplex short tandem repeat (STR) DNA profiles based on laboratory-specific protocols
Overleaf Professional accounts are available for all UCL students and staff. Overleaf Professional is a collaborative, online LaTeX editor that is designed to make the process of writing, editing and producing research papers and project reports much quic
latex, sharelatex
Labster
Simulation
Online, interactive, virtual science lab simulations
Jira Software is built for every member of your software team to plan,
track, and release great software.
JIRA, Atlassian, Agile
ArcGIS Pro
Access to UCL Online ArcGIS Page, for ArcGIS pro and ESRI training.
Arcgis Pro, Online, ESRI training, ARCMAP, Arc Map, Arcgis
LSEG Workspace
Financial
Access unmatched financial data, news and content coverage in a highly customized workflow experience
BioRender is a web-based program that helps you create scientific figures up to 50x faster than traditional tools. The tool combines a library of over 50,000 scientifically accurate, expert-validated life science icons and templates with intuitive drag-an
Presentations; Lab & Team Meetings; Publications; Posters; Visual Protocols; Whiteboarding; Educational Material
sensor Access
Accessibility
PDF
Convert PDFs, JPEGs and other files into an e-book, text file, audio or braille. You can combine more than one .JPG into a single file.
Sensus ApS
Applications
Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author content in Office with a microphone and reliable internet connection. It's a quick and easy way to get your thoughts out, create drafts or outlines, and capture notes.
Microsoft
Dictate, Translate
Sequencher
Statistical
Sequencher sequence analysis software for Sanger, NGS, and RNA-Seq.
Development Tools
Designed to Build, analyze, and optimize high-performance, cross-architecture applications on CPUs and
XPUs with best-in-class compilers, performance libraries, frameworks, and analysis and debug tools.
Intel