Bio-Linux 8.0.2 发布

jopen 10年前

Bio-Linux是功能齐全的、强大的、可定制的、易于维护的生物分析工作站。Bio-Linux基于Ubuntu提供500多个生物分析程序，由一个图形化的菜单进行管理，能方便地访问到其生物分析文档系统及对测试程序有用的样本数据。用于处理新型序列数据类型的Bio-Linux软件包可额外安装。

Bio-Linux 8 – Released July 2014

“Bio-Linux is an ideal system for scientists handling and analysing biological data.”

If you use Bio-Linux in your work, please reference:

Field, D., Tiwari, B., Booth, T., Houten, S., Swan, D., Bertrand, N. and Thurston, M. 2006. Open Software for biologists: from famine to feast. Nature Biotechnology 24, 801 – 803.

See recent papers that have cited Bio-Linux in Google Scholar.

About Bio-Linux

Bio-Linux 8 is a powerful, free bioinformatics workstation platform that can be installed on anything from a laptop to a large server, or run as a virtual machine. Bio-Linux 8 adds more than 250 bioinformatics packages to an Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS base, providing around 50 graphical applications and several hundred command line tools. The Galaxy environment for browser-based data analysis and workflow construction is also incorporated in Bio-Linux 8.

Bio-Linux 8 represents the continued commitment of NERC to maintain the platform, and comes with many updated and additional tools and libraries. With this release we support pre-prepared VM images for use with VirtualBox, VMWare or Parallels. Virtualised Bio-Linux will power the EOS Cloud, which is in development for launch in 2015.

You can install Bio-Linux on your machine, either as the only operating system, or as part of a dual-boot set-up which allows you to use your current system and Bio-Linux on the same hardware.

Bio-Linux can also run Live from a DVD or a USB stick. This runs in the memory of your machine and does not involve installing anything. This is a great, no-hassle way to try out Bio-Linux, demonstrate or teach with it, or to work with it when you are on the move.

Bio-Linux is built on open source systems and software, and so is free to to install and use. See What’s new on Bio-Linux 8. Also, check out the 2006 paper on Bio-Linux and open source systems for biologists.

Getting Bio-Linux

To get Bio-Linux, download the image, burn it to a DVD or USB stick and boot the machine from that media. You will have the option to try the system or install to the hard drive.

If you have over 4GB or RAM, you may prefer to use the virtual appliance[link] which can run in VirtualBox[link] under Windows or MacOX X (or indeed Linux).

If you are already a Bio-Linux 7 user, you can upgrade your Bio-Linux without re-installing.

Furthermore…

You can request Bio-Linux on a 4.0Gb memory stick.

You can install our software packages onto a pre-existing Ubuntu system.

You can set up the system in various configurations depending on your needs.

You can submit feedback or ideas for Bio-Linux by mailing helpdesk@nebc.nerc.ac.uk.

You can join a mailing list for Bio-Linux announcements, discussion or to participate at a development level.

Bio-Linux for Cloud Computing

If you are interested in doing bioinformatics on Amazon EC2 or other public cloud computing architectures you should look at our sister project, CloudBioLinux. This is a community project with involvement from NEBC developers as well as the JCVI, Harvard School of Public Health and other community members.