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Yep, It did take a while, but I'm finding that for A LOT of people find that BioLinux is increasingly the ideal solution; especially for the R, ARB, QIIME, Mothur, and Galaxy installs...all the stuff that most end-user biologists cannot deal with.<BR>
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We use it on both our heavy server/workstations for genome assembly (also running CLC Genomics Workbench). Plus being a open-access training facility/centre, it eliminates the dreaded "I'm going to insert my USB stick with evil windows viruses to crash this (windows) bioinformatics computer" issue.<BR>
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And with about 50% of our users already using MAC OSX, the jump to BioLinux (Ubuntu) is now really small.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
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Andor J Kiss, Supervisor<BR>
Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics<BR>
086 Pearson Hall ~ Miami University<BR>
700 East High Street<BR>
Oxford, Ohio 45056<BR>
USA<BR>
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eMAIL: <A HREF="mailto:kissaj@muohio.edu">kissaj@MiamiOH.edu</A> <BR>
Telephone: +1 (513) 529-4280<BR>
Fax: +1 (513) 529-2431<BR>
URL (CBFG): <A HREF="http://www.cas.muohio.edu/cbfg">http://www.cas.muohio.edu/cbfg</A> <BR>
URL (Research): <A HREF="http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Andor_J_Kiss">http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Andor_J_Kiss</A>
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On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 09:48 +0100, Tim Booth wrote:
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Hi Andor,
> BTW: I'm handing out 40 BioLinux Live DVDs at the NorthEast Ohio
> Bioinformatics Workshop (for undergrads and Grads).
Wow, that's fantastic to hear. Must have taken a while to make, or did
you get your hands on a bulk duplicator? In any case, I hope they find
them useful, and maybe it will bring a few more people to the Bio-Linux
community.
Any time we hear about Bio-Linux being promoted, or used for teaching,
or in a large deployment it's one more bit of ammunition to show that
the project is worthy of continued/increased funding so please do keep
telling us about things like this.
Cheers,
TIM
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