I wanted to float the idea of a possible Ubuntu project here. Given the rationale of edubuntu I wanted to suggest that a Ubuntu distro pre-built with a collection of valuable life science applications would be of value to academic and industrial researchers.
It could also be a set of packages (and docs) to be added to an existing Ubuntu release.
Applications that I would suggest including are listed below
Many of these apps exist on the Vigyaan live CD ( www.vigyaancd.org), but what is needed is the Ubuntu polish and
solid documantation on usage.
What about a name
maybe Life Science Ubuntu, LSbuntu ?
The one I like is Biobuntu.
Regards
Mark
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CCP1gui or Ghemical as a chemistry visualisation tool.
MOPAC for semi-empirical quantum chemistry.
MPQC for ab initio quantum chemistry.
Gromacs for molecular dynamics.
JChempaint or BKchem for molecule drawing in 2D
OpenBabel for interconversion of chemical molecular structure formats.
Jmol / Pymol for 3D molecular visualisation.
EMBOSS for bioinformatics - biological sequence analysis.
Tcoffee for aligning protein/DNA sequences.
R for statistical analysis and visualisation.
GNUplot / Octave for data visualisation and graphics.
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