Yu G, Wang LG, Meng XH, He QY. LXtoo: an integrated live Linux distribution for the bioinformatics community.
BMC Res Notes 2012;
5:360. [PMID:
22813356 PMCID:
PMC3461469 DOI:
10.1186/1756-0500-5-360]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Recent 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.
FINDINGS
Unlike 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.
CONCLUSIONS
LXtoo 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 at http://bioinformatics.jnu.edu.cn/LXtoo.
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