Software and Tools

The Holman Biotech Commons and Education Commons offer free 3D printing for all members of the Penn community. 3D printing is available for both academic and non-academic projects.

A document conversion platform with customized OCR (optical character recognition); can recognize non-standard fonts.

Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows.

A digital audio workstation for recording, editing and producing audio files.

3D anatomy visualization through life-size digital dissection (Holman Biotech Commons).

ArcGIS Pro is a professional desktop geographic information system (GIS) software developed by Esri, a leading provider of GIS technology. It helps users create, analyze, visualize, and share geospatial data and maps. ArcGIS Pro is part of the larger ArcGIS platform, which includes various other software and tools for different GIS workflows.

Access and read scholarly journals from the Penn Libraries collection on your mobile device! BrowZine pulls together articles from library subscription databases, joins them into complete issues, and displays them in a “newsstand” view. A desktop version is also available.

CARTO Builder is cloud-based mapping software that does not require knowledge of code. Georectified historical maps may be used as basemaps.

ChemDraw is the most common program used by individuals to draw chemical structures, glassware, and biological entities for inclusion in documents and presentations.

An open source platform useful for visualizing networks, including co-authorship networks and biological data networks.