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
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	✓