NAME

Frida - Fast reliable interactive data analysis


SYNOPSIS

frida


NEWS

The first JCNS School on Data Analysis for Quasielastic Neutron Scattering with FRIDA will take place 28-29 April 2010 at Garching. Register now: http://www.jcns.info/DataAnalysis2010/


DESCRIPTION

Frida is software for scientific data analysis, primarily written for inelastic neutron scattering. Its data model is quite generic (data files consist of x-y-dy tables that are differentiated by z coordinates), so that it can be used for many different kinds of observational data.


INSTALLATION

Installation guide: http://iffwww.iff.kfa-juelich.de/~wuttke/doku/doku.php?id=frida:installation

Download location: http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/frida/src/

The old download location at sourceforge.net is no longer maintained (too much advertising, too slow, too complicated)

Development snapshot: http://iffwww.iff.kfa-juelich.de/~wuttke/frida2.git/


DOCUMENTATION

Main web site: http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/frida/

Documentation wiki: http://iffwww.iff.kfa-juelich.de/~wuttke/doku/doku.php?id=frida:frida


SEE ALSO

slaw(1)


BUGS

See http://iffwww.iff.kfa-juelich.de/~wuttke/flyspray/index.php?project=2&do=index&switch=1.

Send bug reports to j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de.


HISTORY

Frida1, written in FORTRAN, was developed in the 1990s. The original name IDA was changed to Frida just because there were too many other open-source projects all called IDA.

Frida2 is a rewrite in C++. It is the standard tool for data analysis at the backscattering spectrometer SPHERES. The more specific routines for time-of-flight spectroscopy are currently being ported from Frida1 to Frida2, so that Frida1 can be phased out by mid-2010.

Frida1 includes raw data reduction routines for numerous backscattering and time-of-flight spectrometers. These routines are not ported to Frida2, but to the separate raw-data reduction package SLAW: http://iffwww.iff.kfa-juelich.de/~wuttke/slaw/.


AUTHOR

Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de>


COPYING

Copyright (C) 2009- Joachim Wuttke.

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).