C++ open-science

Open-source C++ projects categorized as open-science

Top 3 C++ open-science Projects

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  1. ITK

    Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.

    Project mention: Modern CMake | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-15

    > If you think your project will have more than half a dozen developers then you should probably start thinking about something like...

    CMake was created in 2000 with large, cross-platform projects involving multiple organizations in mind. The development was funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for the ITK project (https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK). As of 2025, ITK consists of millions of lines of code and has received contributions from hundreds of developers. Other projects of similar scale include VTK and ParaView.

  2. JetBrains

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  3. avogadrolibs

    Avogadro libraries provide 3D rendering, visualization, analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.

  4. tomviz

    Cross platform, open source application for the processing, visualization, and analysis of 3D tomography data

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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# Project Stars
1 ITK 1,529
2 avogadrolibs 552
3 tomviz 336

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