Dear All,
We want to have a Linux distribution based on Debian, dedicated for
Bioinformatics research which
would be useful for researchers and students. In India, high end
hardware systems are at a premium, hence we want the distribution, to
have low memory footprint. A variety of methods will be used to
optimize the performance of the bioinformatics programs.
A few suggested
methods to Optimize Performance:
Remove all
the unnecessary packages(drivers) -- to make booting fast, to
reduce size of the OS
File System
-- like btrfs
A more
efficient Kernel scheduler
Memory
Management – eg. Bigmem
More
aggressive package compilation
We want to have
ours as a long term project. Finally we plan to test this
distribution against other general purpose distributions like Fedora,
CentOS and blends like Biopuppy, Biolinux (NERC) etc., using our own
softwares.
Presently we are
testing out other existing Distributions for Biology. The team
working on this project consists of 3 students and one Faculty from
our institute. As such none of us is from Computer Science
background, so we read and learn as per the need.
We want this to
be a part of the Debian – Med project, hence want your thoughts on
this projects. Any ideas to improve or help is most welcome (and
required).
Thanking You,
--
Prakhar Gaur
Student, Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology,
Biotech Park
Bangalore 560 100
India.http://www.ibab.ac.in
