Software

NetCDF is a popular file format in the plasma community, as its labelled coordinate data and self-descriptive hierarchical format makes it a great choice for scientific data. It has bindings in all of the popular languages used in research software, including Fortran, which is heavily used in plasma science.

Inference-tools is a Python package providing a collection of tools for Bayesian data analysis. It provides implementations of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, density estimating and plotting, and Gaussian-process regression and optimisation.

FORD is a documentation generator for Fortran projects, and is widely used by the scientific Fortran community. It is similar to the popular Doxygen tool, but is designed from the ground up for Fortran. At the time of writing, FORD has 280 stars on GitHub and over 100 forks.