Software on WTS

Package Name 

Version

Description

WTS Platform

Acrobat Reader

5.1 (Cluster) 7.0.1 (Staff)

Adobe Acrobat reader allows the display and printing of *.pdf files

Staff and Cluster

Aleph Client

500.16.02

Library management system software

Staff (Reserved)

Antioch

1.13a

Allows documents to be written in Hebrew

Staff and Cluster

ArcGIS

8.3

A full featured GIS (Geographical Information Ststem). An older GIS Arcview 3 is available as a Unix application.

Staff and Cluster

Barcode font 3of9

Font that displays barcodes

Staff and Cluster

Biochemical Simulations 

November 2001

Teaching material including Enzyme Assay, Oxygen Electrode, Peptide Sequence, Radio-immunoassay, The Foods We Eat, and Urea Synthesis

Staff and Cluster

Calcrete

2.3

Compact Concrete Engineering

Staff and Cluster

Canoco

4.5

Application to analyse species and environmental data.

Staff and Cluster

Chime Pro Plugin

2.6 SP4 (Staff), 2.6 SP3 (Cluster)

Allows web access to chemical reaction databases

Staff and Cluster

Program for CONstrained Incremental Sum of Squares cluster analysis.

Corel Draw

10

Graphics software for illustration and diagram production

Cluster (Restricted)

A spatial statistics package for the analysis of crime incident locations.

CVFIT

August 2000

Program for weighted least squares fitting of various equations to small datasets. Written in-house by the Department of Pharmacology.

Cluster

Dreamweaver

MX 6.1

Web page/site development environment.

Staff and Cluster

E-mail vacation utility

Application to set-up auto-responding to e-mail between two chosen dates.

Staff and Cluster

Embryonic Disk

2.20

A digital resource for human embryonic development. Software written in-house by the Department of Anatomy.

Staff and Cluster

Eudora

5.2.1 Staff 5.1.1 Cluster

Primary IS supported email client.

Staff and Cluster

Exceed

8.0.0.0 (Staff), 7.1.0.0 (Cluster)

X-Windows server that allows access to software on Unix eg Matlab, SAS, R, TeX and LaTeX from the IS Unix service.

Staff and Cluster

Flash Player

6.0 r79

Web browser plug in for Shockwave Flash.

Staff and Cluster

ISIS/Draw

2.4

Chemical structure drawing package.

Staff and Cluster

Java programming language SDK (software development kit) and runtime environment.

Program to analyse and display filetree structure and disk usage.

Jinitiator

1.3.1.17

Allows running of Oracle9i AS Forms Services applications from web browsers. Required for some Management Systems applications.

Staff

Kermit 95

2.0.1

File transfer and terminal emulation package. See also WS_FTP, WinSCP, PuTTy and Exceed.

Staff

A graphical programming system for data acquistion, data analysis and instrument control.

Cluster (Reserved)

LAPT

March 2004

System for managing and presenting computer-based teaching and assessment exercises.

Staff and Cluster

Tool to convert Ordnance Survey Land-Line NTF format files to DXF format.

MAPI

Facility to be able to email directly from within Office packages

Staff and Cluster

Mathematica

4.1.2.0

General softwre system for mathematics, including numerical calculations, symbolic algebra, graphics and a powerful programming language. Also available on Solaris.

Staff and Cluster

Matlab

6.0.0.88

Numerical computation system including a powerful matrix programming language and high quality graphics. Matlab is a Unix application available as a Unix application.

Staff and Cluster

Cluster (Reserved)

Mind mapping application.

Minitab

13.32

Statistical package with an easy to use interface.

Staff and Cluster

An open source web browser, email client and netnews reader. See also IE.

Industry standard project managment software.

Staff and Cluster (Restricted)

Microsoft technical reference for program developers.

Netscape

4.79

Old web browser, email client and netnews reader. Consider using Mozilla instead.

Staff and Cluster

NetShield

4.5

Software to scan files for Viruses and remove them.

Staff and Cluster

A simulation environment for developing and running models and networks of neurons.

Staff and Cluster

Office  

2002(XP) SP3

Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, clip art etc.

Staff and Cluster

Clients to access the UCL diary service.

Oracle Discoverer

3.1.45 

End user data reporting tool for Oracle applications

Staff

Oracle application for financial budgets and forecasts. Installed for Management Systems users.

Microsoft's combined e-mail client, diary and scheduling application. Can link to the UCL diary service.

Application to provide radiocarbon calibration and analysis of archaeological stratigraphy.

XML Editor.

Paint/graphics program

Staff

Program to manipulate and plot pollen, diatom, geochemical or other palaeoenvironmental stratigraphic data.

Pertmaster

7.4.0.26

Project management and risk analysis software.

Staff and Cluster

Text editor.

Pharma-CAL-ogy

1.96 

Teaching software for Pharmacology including Vascular Rings, Dopamine, Movement and Clinical Trials and Drug Development.

Staff and Cluster

PFE

1.01 

Programmers File Editor, installed for use with Prolog

Staff and Cluster

Software for manipulation of photographic and other images.

Power Archiver

6.00.5

File compression and archiving utility.

Staff and Cluster

Industry standard project managment software.

Staff and Cluster (Reserved)

Prolog

5.0.9

An environment for the Prolog programming language.

Staff and Cluster

Prospects Planner

14.0

Careers advice software.

Staff and Cluster

Publish Web Pages

Utility to make the contents of the html.pub directory on a user's R: drive world readable.

Staff and Cluster

Client supporting the SSH protocol which provides a secure encrypted connection between a local and remote host. For example between your WTS session and the central timesharing service (socrates.ucl.ac.uk).

SSH should be used instead of telnet whenever possible.

Both versions 1.5 and 2.0 of the SSH protocol are supported. The following UCL Cert document gives further details about SSH

Quick Time Player

6.5.1

Handles video, sound, animation, graphics, text, and music.

Staff and Cluster

Quota checker

April 2001

Utility to check the amount of disk quota users have used on their R: drive.

Staff and Cluster

R

2.0.1

R (GNU S) is an integrated suite of software for data manipulation, analysis and graphical display with strong support for a wide range of statistical methods. Available as a Unix application.

Staff and Cluster

RASMOL

2.6.4

3D Molecular Graphics Viewer.

Staff and Cluster

RealPlayer

8 (Application), G2 (Plugin)

Application and web browser plugin for sound and video files or streams in real format.

Staff and Cluster

Reference Manager

10

Bibliographic software. Previous version 9.5 is still available on Cluster only.

Staff and Cluster

Error Tracking and Reporting Software.

Staff (Reserved)

Staff (Reserved)

SAS

8.2

A comprehensive package for data analysis and statistics, including a high-level programming language and high-resolution graphical output. Available as a Unix application.

Staff and Cluster

Scientific Graphing software.

SPSS

12.0.1 (Staff), 11.0.0 (Cluster)

Powerful data analysis and statistics package.

Staff and Cluster

SSH

A secure encrypted connection between WTS and a remote remote host eg socrates.ucl.ac.uk using the SSH protocol. See PuTTY for more details.

Staff and Cluster

Stata

8.2 (10 Jan 2005 release)

A full data management, statistics and graphics system.

Staff and Cluster

A generic modelling tool to support learner-directed learning.

Swiss PDB Viewer

3.7 SP5 (Staff), 3.7b2 (Cluster)

3D Molecular Graphics Viewer.

Staff and Cluster

Telnet

5.0 

Allows connection to remote Unix systems from WTS, although PuTTY SSH should be used whenever possible as it is more secure.

Staff and Cluster

Application to view edit and print stratigraphic plots created by the program Tilia-graph.

A personal information manager that allows you to arrange text infmation however you want.

An application for classifying ecological data.

A number of applications are run from WTS using a pass through method to Unix servers. Applications available via this method include ArcView 3, Matlab, R and SAS. The Exceed X Server is used to provide the pass through method.

Users need to aware that printing from these applications requires a named printer to be chosen. Also these applications can only access your R: drive.

Virus Checking

See Netshield.

Visio

2002 SP-2 

A business graphics, technical drawing and diagramming program that can be use to produce flowcharts, communicate concepts, procedures, product information etc.

Cluster (Restricted)

Visual Basic

6.0 

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language and development environment.

Staff and Cluster

Visual C++

6.0 

Microsoft's IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the C++ programming language and Windows APIs (Application Programming Interface).

Staff and Cluster

Application for Bayesian analysis of complex statistical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

Application and web browser plugin supporting various media formats and streams, for example video clips, WMA files and *.MP3 files.

Finds a configuration of points representing your observations bases on the matrix of dissimilarities among the observations. The nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) algorithm is used. It extends the functionality provided by CANOCO.

A secure file transfer utility using SSH.

A table data conversion utility. It can read and write various formats including Microsoft Access , Excel, Lotus123, Cornell and Tilia.

TWINSPAN for Windows.

See Power Archiver

Utility to suggest when you should take breaks from your computer session. It assists in the prevention of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) etc.

WS-FTP

LE 5.08

Insecure FTP client. If possible use WinSCP instead.

Staff and Cluster