Top 3 C++ open-science Projects
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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.
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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.
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JetBrains
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avogadrolibs
Avogadro libraries provide 3D rendering, visualization, analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
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tomviz
Cross platform, open source application for the processing, visualization, and analysis of 3D tomography data
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What are some of the best open-source open-science projects in C++? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | ITK | 1,529 |
2 | avogadrolibs | 552 |
3 | tomviz | 336 |