BioinfoLinux

A Ready-to-Use Virtual Machine for Teaching and Learning Bioinformatics.

The BioinfoLinux desktop (more screenshots)

Note

This project was previously called BioVM

Documentation is being updated but you might still notice references to the old name in some places.

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Table of Contents

• Features
  • Get Latest Bioinformatics Software
  • Galaxy Web Platform Installed and Configured
  • Run Docker Containers
  • Python, Perl, R and System Tools
  • Minimal installation of Ubuntu Linux
• Getting Started
  • System Requirements
  • Download Virtual Machine
  • Run Virtual Machine
  • Essential Information
• Sofware
  • The bioenv Conda Environment
  • Software Installed From Package Repositories
  • Recommendations for installing new software
• Galaxy
  • Register an Account
  • Become an Administrator
  • Enable Automatic Start of Galaxy
  • Commands for Managing Galaxy
• Running Docker containers
• What’s new
  • Release 18.04.1
  • Release 18.04
  • Release 16.04

Support

For questions that are directly related to BioinfoLinux and that are not answered in this documentation, please post them on Biostars with the tag bioinfolinux.

If you notice any bugs, please report them on GitLab

Donate

If you would like to support the development of this project, you can make a donation.

Donate  €5

Donate  €10

Donate  €20

Donate  €50

or donate a custom amount.

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Screenshots

EMBOSS explorer web interface and the Jemboss graphical user interface.

Home page of the local Galaxy instance at http://localhost/galaxy (note: needs to be enabled)

Main window of the UGENE program

Source code

BioinfoLinux is an Open Source project released under the GPLv3 license. Source code is available on GitLab.