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=head1 NAME

Frida - Flexible rapid interactive data analysis


=head1 SYNOPSIS

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=head1 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.


=head1 INSTALLATION

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/


=head1 DOCUMENTATION

Main web site: http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/frida


=head1 SEE ALSO

B<slaw>(1)


=head1 BUGS

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


=head1 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/.


=head1 AUTHOR

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


=head1 COPYING

Copyright (C) 2009- Joachim Wuttke.

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