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Cluster 3.0 provides a nice Graphical User Interface to access to different clustering routines and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix. ELKI includes multiple hierarchical clustering algorithms, various linkage strategies and also includes the efficient SLINK[1]algorithm, flexible cluster extraction from dendrograms and various other cluster analysis algorithms. Octave, the GNU analog to MATLAB implements hierarchical clustering in linkage function Orange, a free data mining software suite, module orngClustering for scripting in Python, or cluster analysis through visual programming. R has several functions for hierarchical clustering: see CRAN Task View: Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models for more information. scikit-learn implements a hierarchical clustering based on the Ward algorithm only. Weka includes hierarchical cluster analysis.