Bio-Linux 7

Info about Bio-Linux 7

Bio-Linux 7 - Released November 2012

Your free, personal bioinformatics workstation - install it or run it live

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.

Overview

Bio-Linux 7 is a fully featured, powerful, configurable and easy to maintain bioinformatics workstation. Bio-Linux provides more than 500 bioinformatics programs on an Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS base. There is a graphical menu for bioinformatics programs, as well as easy access to the Bio-Linux bioinformatics documentation system and sample data useful for testing programs.

Bio-Linux 7 adds many improvements over previous versions, including the Galaxy analysis environment. There are also various packages to handle new generation sequence data types.

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

Bio-Linux also runs Live from the 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 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 7. Also, check out the 2006 paper on Bio-Linux and open source systems for biologists.

Getting Bio-Linux

Getting Bio-Linux is simple. Just download the image, burn it to a DVD or USB stick and boot the machine from that media.

If you are already a Bio-Linux 6 user, you can upgrade your Bio-Linux without re-installing.

You can request a 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 using our feedback form.

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

Bio-Linux for Cloud Computing

You can now run a Bio-Linux system on Amazon EC2 or other cloud computing architectures by using 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.