- Grace (plotting tool)
Infobox_Software
name = Grace
caption = Grace, showing the Fourier transform dialogue
developer = Grace Development Team
latest_release_version = 5.1.22
latest_release_date =May 22 ,2008
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre =
license = GPL
website = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/Grace stands for "GRaphing, Advanced Computation and Exploration of data." It is a
WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for theX Window System and Motif. Grace runs on practically any version ofUnix-like operating system . It has also been successfully ported to VMS,OS/2 , and Windows 9*/NT/2000/XP (onCygwin ).History
Grace is a descendant of Paul Turner's ACE/gr (Grace is also said to stand for "Grace Revamps ACE/gr"), otherwise known as Xmgr. Xmgr was forked as Grace by the Grace development team, led by Evgeny Stambulchik. They released Grace under the GPL. Paul Turner still maintains a closed version of the original Xmgr.
Features
Grace creates publication-quality outputvague|date=July 2008. It can be used from a
point-and-click interface or scripted (either from the built-in programming language or through a number oflanguage binding s). It performs both linear and nonlinearleast-squares fitting to arbitrarily-complex user-defined functions, with or without constraints. Other analysis tools include FFT, integration and differentiation, splines,interpolation and smoothing.Programs using Grace
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GNU Octave can optionally use grace
*GROMACS
*MOLPRO
*NAMD
*Visual Molecular Dynamics See also
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List of graphing software External links
* [http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ Grace Home page]
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