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Type: desktop-application
ID: uk.ac.starlink.topcat
Package: topcat
ProjectLicense: LGPL-2.1-or-later
Name:
C: TOPCAT
Summary:
C: Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
Description:
C: |-
<p>TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most
of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other
tables, though it can be used for non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different
astronomically important formats (including FITS and VOTable) and more formats can be added. It is especially
good at interactive exploration of large (multi-million row, lots of columns) tables.</p>
<p>It offers a variety of ways to view and analyse tables, including a browser for the cell data themselves,
viewers for information about table and column metadata, and facilities for sophisticated interactive
1-, 2-, 3- and higher-dimensional visualisation, calculating statistics and joining tables using flexible
matching algorithms. Using a powerful and extensible Java-based expression language new columns can be
defined and row subsets selected for separate analysis. Table data and metadata can be edited and the
resulting modified table can be written out in a wide range of output formats.</p>
<p>It is a stand-alone application which works quite happily with no network connection. However, because
it uses Virtual Observatory (VO) standards, it can cooperate smoothly with other tools, services and
datasets in the VO world and beyond.</p>
Developer:
id: uk.ac.bristol.mark_taylor
name:
C: Mark Taylor, Astrophysics Group, Physics Department, University of Bristol
Categories:
- Science
- Astronomy
- DataVisualization
- Java
- Education
- Viewer
Keywords:
C:
- FITS
- Astronomy
- Viewer
- VO
- VOTable
- SAMP
Url:
homepage: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
bugtracker: https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/issues
help: https://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/sun253/index.html
vcs-browser: https://github.com/starlink/starjava
faq: https://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/faq.html
Icon:
cached:
- name: topcat_topcat.jxl
width: 64
height: 64
stock: topcat
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- topcat.desktop
Provides:
mediatypes:
- application/x-votable+xml
- application/fits
- image/fits
ContentRating:
oars-1.0: {}
