Equipment, Software, & Tools

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format.

Film and animation software tha also allows 3D editing.

Python is an open-source, object-oriented programming language, particularly well-suited for scientific computing because of its extensive ecosystem of scientific libraries and environments. For more information, see the Python FAQ page and the Python Numeric and Scientific Wiki.

ArcGIS Desktop

Provides basic tools to analyze your data and author geographic knowledge to examine relationships, test predictions, and ultimately make better decisions.

ArcGIS Pro

Supports data visualization, advanced analysis and authoritative data maintenance in both 2D and 3D. ArcGIS Pro supports data sharing across ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise through Web GIS.

Audition is a toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display for creating, mixing, editing, and restoring audio content. This  audio workstation is designed to accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing.

3D computer graphics software that is also used for designing games, film, and animation. Check out the following resources for Autodesk:

• Maya tutorials (YouTube)
• Forums
• Knowledge Network
• Maya Mondays

Blender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games.

Camtasia is a software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint

Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated.

Cytoscape is a free, open source visualization tool for modeling complex networks and integrating network points with attribute data.  Cytoscape can create visualizations of a variety of different types of networks, including molecular and genetic, social networks, and semantic Web.  Adding free plugins to Cytoscape also provides functionality including literature mining, network inference, topological clustering, and network comparison. 

65" interactive digital display used to visualize and demonstration data.

Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development tool to design, code, and publish websites and web applications.

Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor, 

GitHub is a platform for storing and collaborating on code. GitHub Desktop is an application that enables you to interact with GitHub using a GUI instead of the command line or a web browser. Learn more at GitHub Docs.

GraphPad Prism is an analysis and graphing software for scientific research. To learn more, visit the  GraphPad Knowledgebase.

Vector graphics editor.

InDesign is a desktop publishing software application. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books and ebooks.

JAWS is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a refreshable Braille display.