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===== Bio-Linux ===== 

http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux

Bio-Linux 5.0 is a fully featured, powerful, configurable and easy to maintain bioinformatics workstation. Bio-Linux provides more than 500 bioinformatics programs on an Ubuntu Linux base. There is a graphical menu for bioinformatics programs, as well as easy access to the Bio-Linux bioinformatics documentation system and sample data useful for testing programs. You can also install Bio-Linux packages to handle new generation sequence data types.

You can set up the system in various configurations depending on your needs:
   - You can install Bio-Linux on your machine, either as the only operating system, or as part of a dual-boot setup which allows you to use your current system and Bio-Linux on the same hardware.
   - Bio-Linux can also be run from a USB memory stick. This is an ideal way to work with Bio-Linux Live, as files you create are saved to the stick. Of course, you can install the system from the memory stick also
   - You can install our software packages onto a pre-existing Debian or Ubuntu system. http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux/other-bl-docs/package-repository
<file>Open up a terminal and type the following:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Enter your user password.

Scroll down and add the following lines:

#Bio-Linux package repository 
deb http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/bio-linux/ unstable bio-linux
to the end of the file.

Save the file and close gedit.

sudo apt-get install bio-linux-keyring 
sudo apt-get update
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