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African Research Software Directory

A community-maintained directory of research software developed in Africa or built specifically for African research contexts.

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CARTA Active

Next-generation image visualisation and analysis tool for radio astronomy data from ALMA, VLA, and SKA pathfinders.

📍 Multi-institutional (incl. South Africa) 💻 C++, TypeScript ⚖️ GPL-3.0

A flexible Python framework with web interface for anomaly detection in large astronomical datasets.

📍 South Africa 💻 Python ⚖️ BSD-3-Clause
iDaVIE Active

Immersive Data Visualisation Interactive Explorer — a VR-based tool for exploring three-dimensional scientific datasets.

📍 South Africa 💻 C# ⚖️ GPL-3.0
afrihealthsites Unmaintained

R package providing geographic locations of health facilities across African countries from multiple open data sources.

📍 Africa (afrimapr project) 💻 R ⚖️ GPL-3.0
afriadmin Unmaintained

R package making administrative boundary polygons for Africa easily accessible for spatial analysis.

📍 Africa (afrimapr project) 💻 R ⚖️ GPL-3.0

Python library for augmenting text data using Word2Vec, WordNet, translation, and other methods to improve NLP model performance.

📍 South Africa 💻 Python ⚖️ MIT

Open-source toolkit for developing machine learning models, datasets, and applications for South African Sign Language recognition and processing.

📍 South Africa 💻 Python ⚖️ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
statAfrikR Active

R package supporting the complete statistical data cycle for African national statistics institutes.

📍 Africa 💻 R ⚖️ GPL-3.0

Earth observation-based solution for mapping environmental and climate risks at sub-seasonal to seasonal timescales.

📍 South Africa 💻 Python

Interactive data explorer for Xerophyta plant species data, supporting botanical and ecological research.

📍 South Africa 💻 Python
ADBEx Active

African Data and Biospecimen Exchange — a platform for listing and discovering research datasets and biospecimens across Africa.

📍 South Africa 💻 Not specified

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