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- installed by default in Ubuntu
- installed by default in Kubuntu
- installed by default in Edubuntu
- Main (officially supported) Ubuntu repository, not installed by default
- Universe (community maintained) repository
- Multiverse (non-free) repository

Those installed by default are in Main (officially supported) Ubuntu repository. For information about the Ubuntu repositories see Repositories. Clicking on the icon next a program should take you to information about the Ubuntu package.

Astronomy

• KStars - A virtual planetarium.

• XEphem - A very comprehensive ephemeris/planetarium. Old interface.

• Nightfall - An astronomy application for fun, education, and science.

• Stellarium - Stellarium is a free open source planetarium that shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

• Google Earth - 3D earth viewing application includes a sky view.

More Astronomy applications - UbuntuScience/Astronomy

Biology

• BioPerl - a collection of Perl modules that are useful for programmers in bioinformatics/biology

  • also see BioJava and BioPython

• ClustalW - Global multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence alignment

  • ClustalX - GUI for ClustalW