Review on Dark Matter Tools
  Whilst the need for dark matter was established almost a century ago, only
its gravitational interaction has been confirmed so far, allowing for plethora
of models for dark matter. The Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)
category has received by far the biggest attention, however despite the
enormous experimental efforts, these particles remain elusive. The attention of
the community has hence moved on to investigate the dark matter landscape over
a much larger number of models with varying degrees of resemblances and
differences in their predictions. This calls for the need to organise the
various facets of dark matter models and their signatures, in order to maximise
the experimental sensitivity and to select the models which are compatible with
existing data. In this paper, I provide a short review of the most widespread
public codes capable of computing dark matter observables. In particular, I
discuss what is the status of each numerical tool in terms of: (i) capturing
the WIMP phenomenology and (ii) accounting for new trend dark sector models
that might be weakly coupled to ordinary matter and/or be strongly
self-interacting. This short review has the aim of guiding the user towards
selecting the best suited public code to confront his/her model with the
largest variety of theoretical predictions and experimental data in order to
determine the parameter space consistent with observations for his/her
favourite dark matter model.
