ROOT
Sign in to saveROOT is an object-oriented computer program and library developed by CERN. It was originally designed for particle physics data analysis and contains several features specific to the field, but it is also used in other applications such as astronomy and data mining. The latest minor release is 6.34, as of 2025-04-08.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ROOT
- Software.logo
- ROOT Logo.png
- Software.logo_size
- 297px
- Software.screenshot
- CMS ROOT plot.png
- Software.caption
- The CMS experiments presented on July 4, 2012, the status of the Standard Model Higgs search. All plots presented that day used ROOT.
- Software.developer
- CERN
- Software.latest_release_version
- 6.32.12
- Software.author
- René Brun, Fons Rademakers
- Software.programming language
- C++
- Software.operating_system
- Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX
- Software.platform
- IA-32, x86-64
- Software.size
- 86–327 MB
- Software.genre
- Data analysis, Plotting
- Software.license
- LGPL/GPL
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ROOT is an object-oriented computer program and library developed by CERN. It was originally designed for particle physics data analysis and contains several features specific to the field, but it is also used in other applications such as astronomy and data mining. The latest minor release is 6.34, as of 2025-04-08.
== Description == CERN maintained the CERN Program Library written in FORTRAN for many years. Its development and maintenance were discontinued in 2003 in favour of ROOT, which is written in the C++ programming language. ROOT development was initiated by René Brun and Fons Rademakers in 1994. Some parts are published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and others are based on GNU General Public License (GPL) software, and are thus also published under the terms of the GPL. It provides platform independent access to a computer's graphics subsystem and operating system using abstract layers. Parts of the abstract platform are: a graphical user interface and a GUI builder, container classes, reflection, a C++ script and command line interpreter (CINT in version 5, cling in version 6), object serialization and persistence.