Review Article
The A, C, G, and T of Genome Assembly
Table 5
Comparison of different Linux distributions. Here LTS stands for Long Term Support and GUI refers to Graphical User Interface.
| Operating system | Free | Base OS | Software | Open source | LTS | GUI | ×86/×64 | Cloud | Script files |
| Baari | ✓ | Ubuntu 13.10 | 60+ genome assembly tools | ✓ | ✓ | Unity | ×64 | | ✓ |
| Lxtoo | ✓ | Gentoo Linux 11 | Sequence analysis, protein-protein interactions | ✓ | ✓ | X11 Desktop | ×86/×64 | | |
| Open Discovery 3 | | Fedora Sulphur 9 | Molecular dynamics, docking, sequence analysis | | ✓ | GNOME 2.22 | ×86/×64 | ✓ | |
| BioBrew | ✓ | Red Hat 7.3 | Appropriate for clusters | ✓ | | KDE, GNOME | ×86 | | |
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PhyLIS | ✓ | Ubuntu 8 | Phylogenetics | ✓ | | Unity | ×86/×64 | | |
| DNALinux | ✓ | Xubuntu | DNA and protein analysis | ✓ | | XFCE 4.2.2 | ×86 | ✓ | |
| Bioconductor Buntu | ✓ | Ubuntu 12.04 | Bioconductor Buntu 2.11 | ✓ | ✓ | Unity | ×86/×64 | | |
| BioLinux 7 | ✓ | Ubuntu 12.04 | 500+ bioinformatics applications with 7 assembly tools | ✓ | ✓ | Unity | ×64 | ✓ | |
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