Mocking the Weak Lensing universe: the LensTools python computing
  package
  We present a newly developed software package which implements a wide range
of routines frequently used in Weak Gravitational Lensing (WL). With the
continuously increasing size of the WL scientific community we feel that easy
to use Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for common calculations are a
necessity to ensure efficiency and coordination across different working
groups. Coupled with existing open source codes, such as CAMB and Gadget2,
LensTools brings together a cosmic shear simulation pipeline which,
complemented with a variety of WL feature measurement tools and parameter
sampling routines, provides easy access to the numerics for theoretical studies
of WL as well as for experiment forecasts. Being implemented in python,
LensTools takes full advantage of a range of state--of--the art techniques
developed by the large and growing open--source software community
(scipy,pandas,astropy,scikit-learn,emcee). We made the LensTools code available
on the Python Package Index and published its documentation on
http://lenstools.readthedocs.io
