ToBiX 1.0 review

ToBiX is a Morphix-based Linux live CD containing a range of specialist applications for bioinformatics

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 468178K Developer: Bielefeld University

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ToBiX is a Morphix-based Linux live CD containing a range of specialist applications for bioinformatics. With this distrubution you just boot from the CD and you have a fully functional LINUX OS distribution with open source applications.

Besides using some RAM, ToBiX doesn't touch the host computer and is ideal for presentations, workshops or other learning or scientific activity on bioinformatics and computational biology.

ToBiX comprises some of the most useful and powerful bioinformatics tools such as:

Blast 2.0 - Basic Local Alignment Search Tool for rapid searching of nucleotide and protein databases;
Copasi - software application for simulation and analysis of biochemical networks;
mpiBLAST - MPI based parallel implementation of NCBI BLAST;
SimWiz - collection of Java tools for visualization of data resulting from different kinds of biochemical simulation processes;
Cellware - tool to model whole cell biochemical reactions;
Gromacs - molecular dynamics simulation package;
SBML-Editor - tool for the quick creation and edition of SBML files;
Stocks 2 - software for simulation of biochemical processes using Maximal Time Step Method