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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. development for launch in 2014.

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.


What’s New?

Bio-Linux 8 incorporates the incremental improvements and packages added during the life of Bio-Linux 7, as well as new features brought by updating the base system from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and adding support for virtualised environments.



Here are some highlights:
New Ubuntu 14.04 base system supports the latest hardware and provides up-to-date office software, multimedia, etc.

Updated versions of key bioinformatics applications like QIIME, Mothur, Jalview, Artemis, BLAST, Bowtie-Bio tools and many more (users who do not upgrade will no longer get updates).

Up-to-date versions of many R packages, including ggplot2, DESeq and edgeR plus updated Bioconductor and thousands more packages available for direct installation via C2D4U.

Provision of pre-prepared templates for use on VMWare/VirtualBox.

Replacement of NX with x2go, a more flexible version of the fast and secure remote-desktop system.

Inclusion of the MATE desktop as a lightweight alternative to Unity.

A more robust packaging of Galaxy, with support for loading tool-shed tools, Apache proxy, automated PostgreSQL set-up, authentication to local accounts and SFTP file uploads.







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