UNIX versus Linux for Bioinformatics Applications

John S. J. Anderson • July 28, 2000

UNIX versus Linux for Bioinformatics Applications
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Recently, The Biochemist featured an article in their CyberBiochemist section that discussed the choice of *nix-like operating system for bioinformatics applications. The original article may be found at

http://www.portlandpress.com/biochemist/cyber/0006/default.htm

I responsed with a letter pointing out some points that I thought needed clarification, which sparked a reply from Richard Grant, the author of the article. Apparently my letter and Richard's response will be appearing in a future issue of The Biochemist, but you can see them now at

http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/personal/rpg/CB/linux.html

There has also been some follow-up discussion in the news-group bionet.software, including discussion of the place of Open Source software in the bioinformatics world.

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Submitted by Administrator ; posted on Monday, July 31, 2000

Those interested in following this lively discussion on the bionet.software newsgroup can point their browsers to http://www.bio.net/hypermail/bio-software/bio-software.200007/

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