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Open Discovery - Free Software for Microbiology

By , About.com Guide   August 26, 2009

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Opend Discovery Screenshot Being a scientist has never been easier or more exciting. Rapid advances in molecular biology and genomics are generating large amounts of data that provide insights into how organisms work at a molecular level. The Internet provides easy access to information and software for the analysis of the data, and today's desktop computers are equivalent to yesterday's supercomputers and are capable of running sophisticated data analysis and 3D visualization programs.
Now an updated version of Open Discovery has become available.

Open Discovery is Linux distribution that comes with many advanced bioinformatics software packages. It includes tools for DNA sequence analysis, protein structure and chemical structure visualization, homology modeling, and molecular dynamics. It supports multiple processors to speed up computationaly intensive applications and includes programming languages that are popular in the field of bioinformatics, such as PERL and PYTHON.

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September 5, 2009 at 1:23 pm
(1) Ron :

New Linux got this old Red Hat software I would like to up the Web Browsers

September 9, 2009 at 1:45 pm
(2) Dave Simpson :

Yep, i agree you cant beat fre software… you just need to find it

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September 19, 2009 at 6:59 am
(3) Richard :

Could you write more about Solaris or BSD? Maybe some starter or advice or a broad description of each? I found an article http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/200733/alternatives_to_microsoft_windows.html?cat=15 that is kinda like that.

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