I went on and made a list of applications that are currently found in "Science" [science] and another one with these applications roughly sorted into sections [science_sorted].
The short version: Analysis [10] Astronomy [12] Biology [16] Chemistry [11] Geoscience [5] Medicine [1] Physics [5] Social [0] Undetermined [4] Total: 64 Note that this is a number of different _packages_ that contain entries in "Science". Many packages contain more than one entry, some are built from single source, etc. Take with a grain of salt. Now more on my findings. I was surprised not to find a single application suitable for "Social" section. There certainly are some, but they seem to be scattered all over the menu. "gnomesword" is in "Education", for example. There may be intersection between "Text", found in current menu draft, and what "Social" should be. Currently "Text" mostly contains dictionaries, but if "Social" is to be created, it is likely to contain dictionaries only. Therefore "Text" needs to be revisited. I have only located a single medicine-related application, but there are more in other sections. The whole bunch of gnumed-* packages is a good example. I added another section named "Analysis", that contains general data analysis/plotting/calculation applications. I find them very similar to what is found in "Math", so I consider moving "Mathematics" to "Science" a good idea. "Undetermined" is by no means a section name. This is where I listed applications that I think might belong to some other section, or could not determine an appropriate one. klogic - electronics megahal - ??? pybliographer - data management praat - ??? In my previous post I suggested moving "Electronics" and "Engineering" to "Science". My words are still valid. I would prefer to continue this discussion on debian-policy, as it is getting hard to follow.
arb - [Biology] Integrated package for data handling and analysis avida-qt-viewer - qt viewer for avida blast2 - Basic Local Alignment Search Tool boxshade - [Biology] Pretty-printing of multiple sequence alignments cassbeam - A program for Cassegrain antenna modelling celestia - A real-time visual space simulation (KDE frontend) celestia-glut - A real-time visual space simulation (GLUT frontend) celestia-gnome - A real-time visual space simulation (Gnome frontend) chemtool - Chemical structures drawing program clustalw - [Biology] Global multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence alignment clustalx - [Biology] GUI for clustalw dx - OpenDX (IBM Visualization Data Explorer) - main package earth3d - Map client displaying a 3D model of the world fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis g3data - extract data from scanned graphs garlic - A visualization program for biomolecules gdis - molecular display gdpc - visualiser of molecular dynamic simulations ghemical - A GNOME molecular modelling environment gperiodic - periodic table application ifrit - a powerful tool for visualizing 3-dimensional data sets imview - Image viewing and analysis application ygraph - Visualize one-dimensional scientific data kalzium - chemistry teaching tool for KDE kboincspy - monitoring utility for the BOINC client klogic - digital circuit editor and simulator for KDE kstars - desktop planetarium for KDE kst-bin - A KDE application used for displaying scientific data kxterm - Cernlib's KUIP terminal emulator leksbot - An explanatory dictionary of botanic and biological terms libncbi6-dev - NCBI libraries for biology applications (development files) lynkeos.app - Tool to process planetary astronomical images for GNUstep loki - [Biology] MCMC linkage analysis on general pedigrees megahal - conversation simulator that can learn as you talk to it mn-fit - interactive analysis package for fitting data and histograms mssstest - Normalisation of disease scores for patients with Multiple Sclerosis ncbi-tools-bin - NCBI libraries for biology applications (text-based utilities) ncbi-tools-x11 - NCBI libraries for biology applications (X-based utilities) njplot - [Biology] A tree drawing program paje.app - generic visualization tool (Gantt chart and more) paw - Physics Analysis Workstation - a graphical analysis program paw++ - Physics Analysis Workstation (Lesstif-enhanced version) perlprimer - [Biology] graphical design of primers for PCR pybliographer - tool for manipulating bibliographic databases pymol - An OpenGL Molecular Graphics System written in Python polyxmass-bin - Mass spectrometry framework - GUI program praat - program for speech analysis and synthesis qgis - Geographic Information System (GIS) qtdmm - GUI for digital multimeter rasmol - Visualize biological macromolecules saods9 - image display tool for astronomy seaview - [Biology] A multiple sequence alignment editor spacechart - Star map viewer and navigator starplot - 3-dimensional perspective star map viewer stars - star map program that draws the night sky stellarium - real-time photo-realistic sky generator survex-aven - sophisticated cave survey viewer for Survex survex-svxedit - survey data editor for Survex therion - Cave surveying - 2D and 3D drawing software viewmol - A graphical front end for computational chemistry programs. xdrawchem - Chemical structures and reactions editor xmakemol - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems xmakemol-gl - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems xorsa - tool for Celestial Mechanics investigations
Analysis [10] dx - OpenDX (IBM Visualization Data Explorer) - main package fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis g3data - extract data from scanned graphs imview - Image viewing and analysis application ygraph - Visualize one-dimensional scientific data kboincspy - monitoring utility for the BOINC client kst-bin - A KDE application used for displaying scientific data mn-fit - interactive analysis package for fitting data and histograms paje.app - generic visualization tool (Gantt chart and more) qtdmm - GUI for digital multimeter Astronomy [12] cassbeam - A program for Cassegrain antenna modelling celestia - A real-time visual space simulation (KDE frontend) celestia-glut - A real-time visual space simulation (GLUT frontend) celestia-gnome - A real-time visual space simulation (Gnome frontend) kstars - desktop planetarium for KDE lynkeos.app - Tool to process planetary astronomical images for GNUstep saods9 - image display tool for astronomy spacechart - Star map viewer and navigator starplot - 3-dimensional perspective star map viewer stars - star map program that draws the night sky stellarium - real-time photo-realistic sky generator xorsa - tool for Celestial Mechanics investigations Biology [16] arb - [Biology] Integrated package for data handling and analysis avida-qt-viewer - qt viewer for avida blast2 - Basic Local Alignment Search Tool boxshade - [Biology] Pretty-printing of multiple sequence alignments clustalw - [Biology] Global multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence alignment clustalx - [Biology] GUI for clustalw garlic - A visualization program for biomolecules leksbot - An explanatory dictionary of botanic and biological terms libncbi6-dev - NCBI libraries for biology applications (development files) loki - [Biology] MCMC linkage analysis on general pedigrees ncbi-tools-bin - NCBI libraries for biology applications (text-based utilities) ncbi-tools-x11 - NCBI libraries for biology applications (X-based utilities) njplot - [Biology] A tree drawing program perlprimer - [Biology] graphical design of primers for PCR rasmol - Visualize biological macromolecules seaview - [Biology] A multiple sequence alignment editor Chemistry [11] chemtool - Chemical structures drawing program gdis - molecular display ghemical - A GNOME molecular modelling environment gperiodic - periodic table application kalzium - chemistry teaching tool for KDE pymol - An OpenGL Molecular Graphics System written in Python polyxmass-bin - Mass spectrometry framework - GUI program viewmol - A graphical front end for computational chemistry programs. xdrawchem - Chemical structures and reactions editor xmakemol - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems xmakemol-gl - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems Geoscience [5] earth3d - Map client displaying a 3D model of the world qgis - Geographic Information System (GIS) survex-aven - sophisticated cave survey viewer for Survex survex-svxedit - survey data editor for Survex therion - Cave surveying - 2D and 3D drawing software Medicine [1] mssstest - Normalisation of disease scores for patients with Multiple Sclerosis Physics [5] gdpc - visualiser of molecular dynamic simulations ifrit - a powerful tool for visualizing 3-dimensional data sets kxterm - Cernlib's KUIP terminal emulator paw - Physics Analysis Workstation - a graphical analysis program paw++ - Physics Analysis Workstation (Lesstif-enhanced version) Social [0] Undetermined [4] klogic - digital circuit editor and simulator for KDE megahal - conversation simulator that can learn as you talk to it pybliographer - tool for manipulating bibliographic databases praat - program for speech analysis and synthesis
