Frida - Flexible rapid interactive data analysis
frida
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 guide: http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/doku/frida/installation
Download location: http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/src/frida
Development snapshot: git://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/frida.git/
Main web site: http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/frida
slaw(1)
Send bug reports to j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de.
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/.
Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de>
Copyright (C) 2009- Joachim Wuttke.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).