LXtoo: an integrated live Linux distribution for the bioinformatics community
| Autor: | Li-Gen Wang, Qing-Yu He, Guangchuang Yu, Xiao-Hua Meng |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Bioinformatics analysis Computer science Bioinformatics Distribution (economics) lcsh:Medicine General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Software Technical Note lcsh:Science (General) lcsh:QH301-705.5 Medicine(all) Biological data Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) business.industry Linux lcsh:R Computational Biology General Medicine Data science Operating system ComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITION lcsh:Biology (General) Obstacle Programming Languages business lcsh:Q1-390 |
| Zdroj: | BMC Research Notes, Vol 5, Iss 1, p 360 (2012) BMC Research Notes |
| ISSN: | 1756-0500 |
| Popis: | BackgroundRecent advances in high-throughput technologies dramatically increase biological data generation. However, many research groups lack computing facilities and specialists. This is an obstacle that remains to be addressed. Here, we present a Linux distribution, LXtoo, to provide a flexible computing platform for bioinformatics analysis.FindingsUnlike most of the existing live Linux distributions for bioinformatics limiting their usage to sequence analysis and protein structure prediction, LXtoo incorporates a comprehensive collection of bioinformatics software, including data mining tools for microarray and proteomics, protein-protein interaction analysis, and computationally complex tasks like molecular dynamics. Moreover, most of the programs have been configured and optimized for high performance computing.ConclusionsLXtoo aims to provide well-supported computing environment tailored for bioinformatics research, reducing duplication of efforts in building computing infrastructure. LXtoo is distributed as a Live DVD and freely available athttp://bioinformatics.jnu.edu.cn/LXtoo. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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