Title

Open discovery: An integrated live Linux platform of Bioinformatics tools

Authors

 Umashankar Vetrivel^1, * and Kalabharath Pilla¹

Affiliation

¹Department of Bioinformatics, School of Biosciences, SRM University, Ramapuram, Chennai, India

Email

vumashankar@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Software

Date

received October 15, 2008; accepted October 30, 2008; published December 06, 2008

Abstract

Historically, live linux distributions for Bioinformatics have paved way for portability of Bioinformatics workbench in a platform independent manner. Moreover, most of the existing Live Linux distributions limit their usage to sequence analysis and basic molecular visualization programs and are devoid of data persistence. Hence, open discovery – a live linux distribution has been developed with the capability to perform complex tasks like molecular modeling, docking and molecular dynamics in a swift manner. Furthermore, it is also equipped with complete sequence analysis environment and is capable of running windows executable programs in Linux environment. Open Discovery portrays the advanced customizable configuration of fedora, with data persistency accessible via USB drive or DVD.

Keywords

Open discovery; Bioinformatics Linux distribution; Bioinformatics tools; Bioinformatics software; molecular modeling; molecular dynamics; docking; sequence analysis; structural Bioinformatics

Citation

Umashankar & Kalabharath, Bioinformation 3(4): 144-146 (2008)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.