DNALinux, Our History

On the verge of embarking on a new journey with DNALinux, we couldn't miss the opportunity to share our story and express our gratitude to everyone who has supported us from the beginning. Whether by citing us, inviting us to give talks, or even publishing and distributing a CD of what became the first Linux distribution for Bioinformatics in Latin America and one of the first in the world.

In 2003, we began developing DNALinux with the idea of creating a distribution that would simplify the installation and use of bioinformatics tools. By 2006, we had more than 3,000 subscribers from 80 countries, like Canada, the United States, India, and several European countries.

Over the years, DNALinux has been cited in various publications, including the following notable examples:

DNALinux Journal Publication

DNALinux in Scientific Publication

- GPSRdocker: A Docker-based Resource for Genomics, Proteomics and Systems biology. Piyush Agrawal, Rajesh Kumar, Salman Sadullah Usmani, Anjali Dhall, Sumeet Patiyal, Neelam Sharma, Harpreet Kaur, Vinod Kumar, Dilraj Kaur, Shipra Jain, Akshara Pande, Sherry Bhalla, Gajendra P.S. Raghava bioRxiv 827766, 2019 Nov 1; Link

- Wajid B, Serpedin E. Life sciences driven customized Linux distributions. OA Bioinformatics 2014 Jan 18;2(1):1. Link

- Barker et al.: 4273π: Bioinformatics education on low cost ARM hardware. BMC Bioinformatics 2013 14:243. Link

- Yu et al.: LXtoo: an integrated live Linux distribution for the bioinformatics community. BMC Research Notes 2012 5:360. Link

- Teong Han Chew et al.: birgHPC: creating instant computing clusters for bioinformatics and molecular dynamics, Bioinformatics, Volume 27, Issue 9, 1 May 2011, Pages 1320–1321 Link

- Rana A, Foscarini F: Linux distributions for bioinformatics: an update. EMBnet news. 2009, 15 (3) Link

- Vetrivel, Umashankar, and Kalabharath Pilla. “Open discovery: An integrated live Linux platform of Bioinformatics tools.” Bioinformation vol. 3,4 (2008): 144-6. doi:10.6026/97320630003144 Pdf

- Bassi S, González V, Parisi G (2007) Computational Biology in Argentina. PLoS Comput Biol 3(12): e257. Link

- Field, D. et al. "Open software for biologists: from famine to feast." Nature Biotechnology. 24, 801–803 (2006)

DNALinux in Books

- Lee, E. C.-y., & Tan, T. W. (2018). Beginner's Guide to Bioinformatics for High Throughput Sequencing. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd. ISBN-10 9813230517 ISBN-13 978-9813230514

DNALinux in Courses

- Theoretical and practical metagenomic approaches to viral discovery. IBI 5071 - 2017. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas - Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 1374 - Cidade Universitária - SP

- Bioinformática. Máster en Biotecnología, Universidad de Granada Link

DNALinux on the News

- A virtual world, Issue No 79, Genome Technology, 2008, New York.

La Bioinformática y los Sistemas Operativos (V): DNALinux. Madrimasd

- Una distribuzione Linux per studiare il DNA. PC Hi-Tech Senza Segreti

- "DNALinux [5] is the distribution among those re- viewed in 2007 that has, more than the others, radically changed. The most notable is that it is no longer distributed as a LiveCD/DVD but only as a virtual machine that can be run inside VMware player on a Windows OS" in Rana, A. and Foscarini F., 2009, Linux distributions for bioinformatics: an update. EMBnet.News Vol.15 No.3

- "Otra distribución argentina de nivel internacional" DNALinux. Linux User 09.

- "El ADN de Linux" Suplemento Mi PC, informática y tecnología. Diario La Nación.

- "DNAlinux provides access to a fairly large range of bioinformatics tools, including both the EMBOSS package and ncbitools." Tiwari, B. & Field, D. (2005). A bioinformatics playground. LinuxUser and Developer 46, 50–56.

"Las mil caras de Linux... DNALinux, versión para bioinformática." Suplemento Soluciones para la PC, Diario Clarín (2005)

"El desarrollo se llama DNALinux y está orientado hacia el sector de las investigaciones en biotecnología. El proyecto ya tiene más de tres mil suscripciones de 80 países." Diario Vanguardia, Argentina (2006)

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