Summary

A Debian Pure Blend is a Debian internal project which assembles a set of packages that might help users to solve certain tasks of their work. The list on the right shows the tasks of Debian Science.

Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian Science is made of:

Astronomy - Debian Science Astronomy packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Astronomy. You might also be interested in field::astronomy debtag and, depending on your focus, in the education-astronomy metapackage.
Astronomy-dev - Debian Science Astronomy-dev packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages which might be helpful for development of applications for Astronomy.

You might also be interested in the science-astronomy metapackage.
Brain-computer interface - Debian Science packages for the design and use of: brain-computer interface (BCI) -- direct communication pathway between a brain and an external device. BCIs are often aimed at assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.

The selection of packages is targeting the complete frameworks for the design of BCI systems. Often such systems rely on external presentation, data collection and analysis software which could be found in science-neuroscience-cognitive, science-dataacquisition, data-machine-learning metapackages.
Biology - Debian Science Biology packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Biology. You might also be interested in the field::biology debtag.

This metapackage makes use of the packages med-bio and med-bio-dev (for development of biological applications) which are maintained by Debian Med - another Debian Pure Blend. If you are a biologist you are most probably interested in the Debian Med project which deals with biology and medicine in much more detail then the more general Debian Science.
Chemistry - Debian Science Chemistry packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Chemistry. You might also be interested in the field::chemistry debtag and, depending on your focus, in the education-chemistry metapackage.
Data acquisition - Debian Science data acquisition packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to data acquisition. This might be used in several sciences (as for instance science-viewing and science-typesetting).
Data acquisition development - Debian Science data acquisition development packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages which are helpful to develop applications related to data acquisition. This might be used in several sciences.
Distributed computing - Debian Science Distributed Computing packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages useful for various types of distributed computing, such as grid-, cloud-, cluster- and parallel-computing.
Electronics - Debian Science Electronics packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Electronics. You might also be interested in the field::electronics debtag and, depending on your focus, in the education-electronics metapackage.
Electrophysiology - Debian Science packages for Electrophysiology: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for scientists doing electrophysiology-based neuroscience research.

The selection of packages is targeting the application of analysis techniques. Methods developers are referred to the science-statistics, science-imageanalysis, science-numericalcomputation, med-imaging, and med-imaging-dev metapackages for a variety of additional software that might be useful for electrophysiology research.
Engineering - Debian Science Engineering packages: This metapackage is part od the Debian Pure Blend "Debian Science" and installs packages related to Engineering.

Please not that there is an additional package engineering-dev which depends from packages which are useful to develop engineering related software.
Engineering-dev - Debian Science Engineering-dev packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages which might be helpful for development of applications for Engineering.

You might also be interested in the science-engineering metapackage.
Geography - Debian Science Geography packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Geography. You might also be interested in the field::geography debtag and, depending on your focus, in the education-geography metapackage.
High energy physics - Debian Science High Energy Physics packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to High Energy Physics, which is a branch of physics that studies the elementary subatomic constituents of matter and radiation, and their interactions. The field is also called Particle Physics.

You might also be interested in the debtag field::physics and, depending on your focus, in the physics and education-physics metapackages.
High energy physics (devel) - Debian Science High Energy Physics development packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to development of High Energy Physics applications, which is a branch of physics that studies the elementary subatomic constituents of matter and radiation, and their interactions. The field is also called Particle Physics.

You might also be interested in the debtag field::physics and, depending on your focus, in the physics and education-physics metapackages.
Image analysis - Debian Science image analysis packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to scientific image acquisition. This might be used in several sciences (as for instance science-dataacquisition, science-viewing and science-typesetting).
Linguistics - Debian Science Linguistics packages: This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend "Debian Science" and installs packages related to Linguistics.
Machine learning - Debian Science Machine Learning packages: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for scientists interested in machine learning. Included packages range from knowledge-based (expert) inference systems to software implementing dominant nowadays statistical methods.
Mathematics - Debian Science Mathematics packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Mathematics. You might also be interested in the field::mathematics debtag and, depending on your focus, in the education-mathematics metapackage.
Mathematics-dev - Debian Science Mathematics-dev packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages which might be helpful for development of applications for Mathematics.

You might also be interested in the science-mathematics metapackage.
Meteorology - Debian Science Meteorology packages: This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend "Debian Science" and installs packages related to Meteorology and Climate.
Meteorology-dev - Debian Science Meteorology-dev packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages which might be helpful for development of applications for Meteorology and Climate.

You might also be interested in the science-meteorology metapackage.
Nanoscale physics - Debian Science Nanoscale Physics packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Nanoscale Physics, which corresponds to the study of physical systems typically ranging from 1 to 100 nm in size. The properties of such systems usually depend on the number of atoms they are made of, while this number is still relatively large for an accurate description.

The nanoscale is the meeting point of classical and quantum physics. Previous research efforts were considering either smaller systems, for which everybody could develop their own methods and software independently, or much bigger systems, for which it was clearly impossible to provide a fine-grained description. Addressing the issues raised by the nanoscale requires however cooperative and coordinated efforts in a multidisciplinary context. This metapackage is part of such an endeavor.

You might also be interested in the debtag field::physics and, depending on your focus, in the physics and education-physics metapackages.
Nanoscale physics development - Debian Science Nanoscale Physics development packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages which might be helpful for the development of applications for Nanoscale Physics.

You might also be interested in the debtag field::physics and, depending on your focus, in the nanoscale-physics, physics and education-physics metapackages.
Cognitive neuroscience - Debian Science packages for Cognitive Neuroscience: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for scientists doing cognitive neuroscience research. This comprises the full research process from conducting psychophysical experiments, over data acquisition and analysis, to visualization and typesetting of scientific results.

The selection of packages is targeting the application of analysis techniques. Methods developers are referred to the science-statistics, science-imageanalysis, science-numericalcomputation, med-imaging, and med-imaging-dev metapackages for a variety of additional software that might be useful in the context of cognitive neuroscience.
Neuroscience datasets - Debian Science packages for Neuroscience Datasets: This metapackage will install Debian packages that provide neuroscientific datasets. These datasets can be useful as common data files for applications (e.g. stereotaxic atlases), as example data for online tutorials or teaching, and as input data for analysis algorithms in demonstrations or test suites.
Modeling of neural systems - Debian Science packages for modeling of neural systems: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for scientists interested in modeling of real neural systems at different levels (from single neuron to complex networks).

The selection of packages is targeting the application of simulation techniques. Methods developers are referred to the science-statistics, science-imageanalysis, science-numericalcomputation, med-imaging, and med-imaging-dev metapackages for a variety of additional software that might be useful for neuroscience research.
Numerical computation - Debian Science Numerical Computation packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages useful for numerical computation. The packages provide an array oriented calculation and visualisation system for scientific computing and data analysis. These packages are similar to commercial systems such as Matlab and IDL.
Physics - Debian Science Physics packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Physics. You might also be interested in the debtag field::physics and, depending on your focus, in education-physics metapackage.
Physics-dev - Debian Science Physics-dev packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages which might be helpful for development of applications for Mathematics.

You might also be interested in the science-physics metapackage.
Psychophysics - Debian Science packages for Psychophysics: This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for carrying out any experiment relating physical stimuli and their psychological effects.

The selection of packages is targeting software for stimuli delivery. For additional software related to the analysis of the acquired data refer to science-neuroscience-cognitive, med-imaging depending on the domain of application. Additionally look into science-bci since those often provide a complete loop frameworks including stimuli delivery.
Robotics - Debian Robotics packages: This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend "Debian Science" and installs packages related to Robotics.

You might also be interested in the science-engineering metapackage.
Robotics - Debian Robotics development packages: This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend "Debian Science" and installs packages that are relevant to develop applications for robotics.
Simulations - Debian Science Simulation packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages that are used to do simulations in different fields of science.
Statistics - Debian Science Statistics packages: This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend "Debian Science" and installs packages related to statistics. This task is a general task which might be useful for any scientific work. It depends from a lot of R packages as well as from other tools which are useful to do statistics. Moreover the Science Mathematics task is suggested to optionally install all mathematics related software.
Typesetting - Debian Science typesetting packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to typesetting. You might also be interested in the use::typesetting debtag.
Viewing - Debian Science data visualisation packages: This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to data visualization. You might also be interested in the use::viewing debtag.